Neural systems that facilitate the representation of social rank

MF Dwortz, JP Curley, KM Tye… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Across species, animals organize into social dominance hierarchies that serve to decrease
aggression and facilitate survival of the group. Neuroscientists have adopted several model …

New perspectives on the role of cleaning symbiosis in the possible transmission of fish diseases

P Narvaez, DB Vaughan, AS Grutter… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2021 - Springer
For the last seven decades, cleaning symbiosis in the marine environment has been a
research field of intrigue. There is substantial evidence that, by removing undesired items …

The integration of sociality, monoamines and stress neuroendocrinology in fish models: applications in the neurosciences

MC Soares, R Gerlai, C Maximino - Journal of fish biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Animal‐focused research has been crucial for scientific advancement, but rodents are still
taking a starring role. Starting as merely supporting evidence found in rodents, the use of …

Social plasticity in the fish brain: Neuroscientific and ethological aspects

K Maruska, MC Soares, M Lima-Maximino… - Brain Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Social plasticity, defined as the ability to adaptively change the expression of social behavior
according to previous experience and to social context, is a key ecological performance trait …

Stimulation of dopamine D1 receptor improves learning capacity in cooperating cleaner fish

JPM Messias, TP Santos, M Pinto… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Accurate contextual decision-making strategies are important in social environments.
Specific areas in the brain are tasked to process these complex interactions and generate …

The neurobiology of mutualistic behavior: the cleanerfish swims into the spotlight

MC Soares - Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
One of the most notorious examples of cooperation between different species happens in
the cleaner-client fish mutualism. The best known cleaner fish species, the bluestreak Indo …

Transitive inference in cleaner wrasses (Labroides dimidiatus)

T Hotta, K Ueno, Y Hataji, H Kuroshima, K Fujita… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Transitive inference (TI) is the ability to infer unknown relationships from previous
information. To test TI in non-human animals, transitive responding has been examined in a …

Using fish models to investigate the links between microbiome and social behaviour: The next step for translational microbiome research?

MC Soares, J Cable, MG Lima‐Maximino… - Fish and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research has revealed surprisingly important connections between animals'
microbiome and social behaviour. Social interactions can affect the composition and …

Using model fish to study the biological mechanisms of cooperative behaviour: A future for translational research concerning social anxiety disorders?

MC Soares, SC Cardoso, T dos Santos Carvalho… - Progress in Neuro …, 2018 - Elsevier
Human societies demand of its composing members the development of a wide array of
social tools and strategies. A notable example is human outstanding ability to cooperate with …

Neuro-molecular characterization of fish cleaning interactions

S Ramirez-Calero, JR Paula, E Otjacques, R Rosa… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Coral reef fish exhibit a large variety of behaviours crucial for fitness and survival. The
cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus displays cognitive abilities during interspecific …