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Environmental Sciences
Tamara Leite, Paulo Branco, Maria Teresa Ferreira, Jose Maria Santos
Summary: The study found that increasing salinity has sub-lethal effects on freshwater fish behavior, including reduced swimming activity and shoal cohesion, as well as an increase in bolder individuals. Changes in fish behavior can reflect shifts in ecological condition.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Adam Patch, Alexandra Paz, Karla J. Holt, Erik R. Duboue, Alex C. Keene, Johanna E. Kowalko, Yaouen Fily
Summary: Fish exhibit diverse social behaviors, and their evolution in response to changing environmental pressures is not well understood. A study on Astyanax mexicanus found that surface fish display social swimming behaviors, while cavefish mainly exhibit avoidance behaviors, suggesting divergent responses to conspecifics. Computer simulations showed that reduced swimming speed in cavefish affects their exploration behavior.
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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
C. Toinon, S. Waiblinger, R. Palme, J. -L. Rault
Summary: Early maternal deprivation has long-term effects on the social behavior and stress-coping strategy of goat kids. In this study, we investigated the effects of early maternal deprivation on 18-month-old goats, and found differences in their social behaviors and responses to stressors between goats raised with their dams and those artificially reared.
Article
Fisheries
Shengjie Ren, Peter B. Mather, Binguo Tang, David A. Hurwood
Summary: In this study, two standardized multiplex microsatellite panels were developed for pedigree management of farmed white-leg shrimp. These panels exhibited high information content and could accurately identify parentage, maximizing genetic gains in selective breeding projects.
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Jaime Ramirez Castillo, M. Julia Flores, Philippe Leray
Summary: This article introduces the research field of music information retrieval and proposes a novel approach to predict Spotify audio features using Last.fm tags. By predicting audio features, the relationship between subjective perception and concrete musical features can be explored, and explainable recommendations can be provided in recommendation systems.
MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Alberto Corral-Lopez, Natasha I. Bloch, Wouter van der Bijl, Maria Cortazar-Chinarro, Alexander Szorkovszky, Alexander Kotrschal, Iulia Darolti, Severine D. Buechel, Maksym Romenskyy, Niclas Kolm, Judith E. Mank
Summary: The organization and coordination of fish schools provide insights into the genetic architecture of affiliative behaviors, and the authors of this study used guppies to investigate the genetic basis of sociability phenotypes. They found that experimental evolution of schooling propensity increased the sociability of female guppies swimming with unfamiliar conspecifics, and genes involved in neuron migration and synaptic function played key roles in the evolution of sociability.
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Francesca Ciardo, Davide De Tommaso, Agnieszka Wykowska
Summary: Sensorimotor signaling is a crucial mechanism for human coordination. This study found that when interacting with a robot, human participants showed less variability in their performance when the error made by the robot was human-like, compared to a mechanical failure. However, when the partner was an algorithm, the pattern was reversed. Furthermore, social inclusion was only affected by human-likeness when the partner was a robot.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Biology
Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo, Enrique Baquedano, Luciano Varela, P. Sebastian Tambusso, Maria Julia Melian, Richard A. Farina
Summary: This passage discusses the earliest presence of humans in America, using advanced deep learning algorithms to increase the accuracy of identifying bone surface modifications. The results from the archaeological site in Uruguay confidently show stone tool-induced cut-marks on bones, supporting the earlier presence of humans in the continent.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Liyang Xie, Wei Xu, Yi Zhou
Summary: This study examined the relationship between parents' smoking behavior and their children's education level using long-term survey data in China. The findings suggest that parents of children with higher education are more likely to quit smoking, especially those who have not completed primary school or live close to their children and meet them frequently.
JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Jared C. Wilson, Thomas M. Detmer, Dalon White, David H. Wahl
Summary: In this experimental study, it was found that naive juvenile bighead carp can mimic anti-predator behaviors of experienced individuals, even when they are of a different species. Diverse alarm responses of bighead carp to composition and experience suggest that responses of this species are plastic. Through changing responses based on shoal experience level and composition, plastic social learning highlights how naive individuals may adapt to novel predator threats.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Tyrone Lucon-Xiccato, Silvia Cattelan, Matteo Griggio
Summary: Research has shown that familiar individuals in a shoal exhibit different behavior compared to unfamiliar individuals. However, when a shoal is composed of both familiar and unfamiliar individuals, their behavior is similar to that of shoals formed by unfamiliar individuals. This suggests that the advantages of social groups formed by familiar fish might be rarely seen in nature when shoal composition changes frequently.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Tareq Alhmiedat, Majed Aborokbah
Summary: The paper introduces a new smart social distance system to help individuals maintain social distances between others to prevent exposure to COVID-19. The system uses a smart wearable prototype and achieved high acceptance rate and low localization error through experiments.
Article
Biology
Alisson P. de Almeida, Marcus V. C. Baldo, Simone C. Motta
Summary: In nature, confrontations between conspecifics are recurrent and related to the lack of resources. Repeated social defeat can lead to changes in social defence behaviour. The balance of activity between the amygdala, hypothalamic nuclei, and the hypothalamic pre-mammillary nucleus (PMD) may determine the pattern of social defence behaviour.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Luiz Rosa, Fabiano Costa, Falco L. Goncalves, Denis B. Rosemberg
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the social behavior of zebrafish in a nociception-based context and found that nociception can modulate zebrafish sociability. The administration of acetic acid disrupted the shoal homogeneity, but coadministration of morphine protected against behavioral changes. The social preference test revealed that zebrafish showed a preference for conspecifics over shoals treated with acetic acid.
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alberto Corral-Lopez, Alexander Kotrschal, Alexander Szorkovszky, Maddi Garate-Olaizola, James Herbert-Read, Wouter van der Bijl, Maksym Romenskyy, Hong-Li Zeng, Severine Denise Buechel, Ada Fontrodona-Eslava, Kristiaan Pelckmans, Judith E. Mank, Niclas Kolm
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between collective motion patterns, predation threat, and predator inspection behavior in guppies. The researchers find that guppies selected for schooling remain highly coordinated across different predation contexts and show changes in brain morphology that likely enhance sensory information relay efficiency.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Arne Jungwirth, Valentina Balzarini, Markus Zottl, Andrea Salzmann, Michael Taborsky, Joachim G. Frommen
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
(2019)
Review
Ecology
Joachim G. Frommen
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Dario Josi, Michael Taborsky, Joachim G. Frommen
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Loris Durrer, Michael Taborsky, Joachim G. Frommen
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Dario Josi, Annika Freudiger, Michael Taborsky, Joachim G. Frommen
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Dario Josi, Joachim G. Frommen
Summary: The research revealed that sympatric lamprologine cichlid species displayed aggression towards their mirror image in a natural environment, with variations in the types and frequencies of attacks among species. Larger species tended to show more overt attacks, and aggression escalated over time during the encounters.
Article
Ecology
Dario Josi, Dik Heg, Tomohiro Takeyama, Danielle Bonfils, Dmitry A. Konovalov, Joachim G. Frommen, Masanori Kohda, Michael Taborsky
Summary: Our study reveals that within-group relatedness is positively correlated with reproductive skew, and the importance of direct and indirect fitness benefits of cooperation depends on the age of helpers in complex social structures.
Article
Ecology
Annika Freudiger, Dario Josi, Timo Thuenken, Fabian Herder, Jana M. Flury, David A. Marques, Michael Taborsky, Joachim G. Frommen
Summary: Animals may respond to ecological heterogeneity through genetic differentiation or phenotypic plasticity, adaptation at various levels of organization, and the influence of ecological factors on morphological differentiation can be significant. However, geographical and genetic distance have limited explanatory power for morphological differences between populations.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Joachim G. Frommen, Timo Thunken, Francesca Santostefano, Valentina Balzarini, Attila Hettyey
Summary: This study examines the effects of chronic and acute predator presence on male traits and female choice in three-spined sticklebacks. The presence of predator cues during rearing reduces male breeding colouration but increases courtship activity, while acute predator presence has no effect. Predator presence during development does not affect female choice, but acute presence changes female preferences. The plasticity in male traits and female preferences induced by predators leads to dynamic processes that alter sexual selection.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Dario Josi, Jana M. Flury, Maria Reyes-Contreras, Hirokazu Tanaka, Michael Taborsky, Joachim G. Frommen
Summary: Female helpers typically obtain dominant breeding positions immediately after reaching sexual maturity, with reduced growth rates, while males take twice as long to achieve breeder status. Males can either stay subordinate within a dominant male's harem or disperse and become solitary, with different risks and rewards associated with each strategy.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Taiga Saeki, Shun Satoh, Joachim G. Frommen, Masanori Kohda, Satoshi Awata
Summary: Cooperative breeding behavior was observed in the cichlid fish Neolamprologus meeli from Lake Tanganyika. Dominant males and females had multiple mates, while subordinate individuals helped with territory defense and nest maintenance. Most helpers and juveniles were offspring of the dominant breeders, suggesting a kin-structured cooperative breeding system. This finding contributes to the understanding of cooperative breeding in fishes and the evolution of complex social systems.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Arne Jungwirth, Markus Zottl, Danielle Bonfils, Dario Josi, Joachim G. Frommen, Michael Taborsky
Summary: Social evolution and dispersal decisions are closely related, but the factors driving philopatry or dispersal are often unclear. This study of cooperatively breeding fish demonstrates that philopatry benefits individuals by increasing breeding tenure and lifetime reproductive success. Male and female life histories differ, with males dispersing more and females more likely to inherit a breeding position. Male dispersal appears to be driven by differences in intrasexual competition rather than adaptive preference. Philopatry contributes to the maintenance of cooperative groups, with females obtaining greater benefits in social cichlids.
Article
Ecology
Daniel Wright, Jade Newton-Youens, Joachim G. Frommen
Summary: This study explores social preferences and group size discrimination in golden mantella tadpoles. The results show that tadpoles prefer being with a group over being alone, and the strength of this preference declines with increasing age. Furthermore, tadpoles prefer to be close to the larger of two groups.
EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Nick A. R. Jones, Jade Newton-Youens, Joachim G. Frommen
Summary: Environmental conditions, particularly temperature, have a significant impact on animal behavior. This study focused on aggression in Neolamprologus pulcher fish and found that aggression rates increased with temperature at lower levels, but decreased after reaching a peak. Additionally, the influence of high temperatures on aggression changed over time during the trials. These findings provide a more comprehensive understanding of the short-term effects of temperature on aggression and highlight the importance of considering non-linear changes in thermal performance.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Timo Thuenken, Sebastian A. Baldauf, Nicole Bersau, Joachim G. Frommen, Theo C. M. Bakker
