Live corals are the key habitat forming organisms on coral reefs, contributing to both
biological and physical structure. Understanding the importance of corals for reef fishes is …

Hierarchical social status greatly influences behavior and health. Human and animal studies
have begun to identify the brain regions that are activated during the formation of social …

Dominance hierarchies are widespread in animal social groups and often have
measureable effects on individual health and reproductive success. Dominance ranks are …

The Gobiiformes is one of the most diverse orders of the Percomorphs, with approximately
2000 species in 270 genera. They represent 5 to 10% of all teleosts, with species occurring …

In many animal societies where hierarchies govern access to reproduction, the social rank of
individuals is related to their age and weight,,,, and slow-growing animals may lose their …

In many animal societies, individuals differ consistently in their ability to win agonistic
interactions, resulting in dominance hierarchies. These differences arise due to a range of …

Social status affects access to food, mates and shelter and has consequences for the
physiology of individuals and their health status. In the zebrafish (Danio rerio), an emerging …

In human societies, social behaviour is strongly influenced by threats of punishment, even
though the threats themselves rarely need to be exercised. Recent experimental evidence …

All animals must acquire food to grow, but there is a vast diversity in how different species
and even different individuals approach and achieve this task. Individuals within a species …

Considerable research has focused on understanding variation in reproductive skew in
cooperative animal societies, but the pace of theoretical development has far outstripped …