Reasons to Be Skeptical about Sentience and Pain in Fishes and Aquatic Invertebrates

Welfare of Decapod Crustaceans with Special Emphasis on Stress Physiology

(2023) Sven Wuertz et al.   AQUACULTURE RESEARCH

Publication bias impacts on effect size, statistical power, and magnitude (Type M) and sign (Type S) errors in ecology and evolutionary biology

(2023) Yefeng Yang et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative

(2023) Itzhak Khait et al.   CELL

Exploring the limits to our understanding of whether fish feel pain

(2023) Paul J. B. Hart   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Perspectives on aquaculture's contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals for improved human and planetary health

(2023) Max Troell et al.   JOURNAL OF THE WORLD AQUACULTURE SOCIETY

Circadian rhythm of preferred temperature in fish: Behavioural thermoregulation linked to daily photocycles in zebrafish and Nile tilapia

(2023) Luisa M. Vera et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Stressed plants ‘cry’ — and some animals can probably hear them

(2023) Emma Marris   NATURE

Can ChatGPT be leveraged for taxonomic investigations? Potential and limitations of a new technology

(2023) ANDREW A. DAVINACK   ZOOTAXA

Is it time for insect researchers to consider their subjects’ welfare?

(2023) Andrew Crump et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Mechanosensory signal transmission in the arms and the nerve ring, an interarm connective, of Octopus bimaculoides

(2023) Weipang Chang et al.   iScience

Why humans kill animals and why we cannot avoid it

(2023) Benjamin L. Allen et al.   Science of The Total Environment

Ion channels of cilia: Paramecium as a model

(2022) Megan S. Valentine et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Human Brain Organoids and Consciousness

(2022) Takuya Niikawa et al.   Neuroethics

Meta-analysis reveals an extreme “decline effect” in the impacts of ocean acidification on fish behavior

(2022) Jeff C. Clements et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Mussel memory: can bivalves learn to fear parasites?

(2022) Christian Selbach et al.   Royal Society Open Science

The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system

(2022) Michelle Tigchelaar et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Red Herrings, Fish Pain and the Study of Animal Sentience

(2022) G. J. Mason et al.   Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Considering elements of natural strategies to control salmon lice infestation in marine cage culture

(2022) A Stene et al.   Aquaculture Environment Interactions

Recognising trade-offs between welfare and environmental outcomes in aquaculture will enable good decisions

(2022) G Macaulay et al.   Aquaculture Environment Interactions

Multiple nerve cords connect the arms of octopuses, providing alternative paths for inter-arm signaling

(2022) Adam Kuuspalu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Reviving the unique potential of recreational fishers as environmental stewards of aquatic ecosystems

(2022) Samuel Shephard et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Pain Recognition in Fish

(2022) Lynne U. Sneddon et al.   Veterinary Clinics of North America - Exotic Animal Practice

Reexamining one-trial learning in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) through private and social cues: No evidence for hook avoidance lasting more than seven months

(2022) Philipp Czapla et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Why Protect Decapod Crustaceans Used as Models in Biomedical Research and in Ecotoxicology? Ethical and Legislative Considerations

(2021) Annamaria Passantino et al.   Animals

Individuality, self and sociality of vascular plants

(2021) František Baluška et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence suggests affective pain experience in octopus

(2021) Robyn J. Crook   iScience

Neural Design Principles for Subjective Experience: Implications for Insects

(2021) Brian Key et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Humane Slaughter of Edible Decapod Crustaceans

(2021) Francesca Conte et al.   Animals

Potential Pain in Fish and Decapods: Similar Experimental Approaches and Similar Results

(2021) Robert W. Elwood   Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Aquatic foods to nourish nations

(2021) Christopher D. Golden et al.   NATURE

Misplaced trust: When trust in science fosters belief in pseudoscience and the benefits of critical evaluation

(2021) Thomas C. O'Brien et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Hook retention but not hooking injury is associated with behavioral differences in Bluegill

(2021) Benjamin L. Hlina et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Science, precaution and innovation for sustainable fisheries: The judgement by the Court of Justice of the EU regarding the electric pulse fishing ban

(2021) Jerneja Penca   MARINE POLICY

A standardized battery of tests to measure Octopus vulgaris’ behavioural performance

(2020) Luciana Borrelli et al.   INVERTEBRATE NEUROSCIENCE

Ocean acidification does not impair the behaviour of coral reef fishes

(2020) Timothy D. Clark et al.   NATURE

Estimating the deep replicability of scientific findings using human and artificial intelligence

(2020) Yang Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain

(2020) Srinivasa N. Raja et al.   PAIN

Efficiency changes in bottom trawling for flatfish species as a result of the replacement of mechanical stimulation by electric stimulation

(2020) Jan-Jaap Poos et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Increased robustness of postlarvae and juveniles from non-ablated Pacific whiteleg shrimp, Penaeus vannamei, broodstock post-challenged with pathogenic isolates of Vibrio parahaemolyticus (VpAHPND) and white spot disease (WSD)

(2020) Simão Zacarias et al.   AQUACULTURE

Reproductive performance and offspring quality of non-ablated Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) under intensive commercial scale conditions

(2019) Simão Zacarias et al.   AQUACULTURE

Memory inception and preservation in slime moulds: the quest for a common mechanism

(2019) A. Boussard et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Is it pain if it does not hurt? On the unlikelihood of insect pain

(2019) Shelley A. Adamo   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Acute-Stress Biomarkers in Three Octopodidae Species After Bottom Trawling

(2019) Cristina Barragán-Méndez et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Predatory journals: no definition, no defence

(2019) Agnes Grudniewicz et al.   NATURE

The power of support from companion animals for people living with mental health problems: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the evidence

(2018) Helen Louise Brooks et al.   BMC Psychiatry

Welfare of aquatic animals: where things are, where they are going, and what it means for research, aquaculture, recreational angling, and commercial fishing

(2018) Howard I Browman et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Review of some scientific issues related to crustacean welfare

(2018) B K Diggles et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Does unilateral eyestalk ablation affect the quality of the larvae of the pink shrimp Farfantepenaeus brasiliensis (Letreille, 1817) (Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata: Penaeidae)?

(2018) Eden Magaña-Gallegos et al.   JOURNAL OF CRUSTACEAN BIOLOGY

Nociceptive Biology of Molluscs and Arthropods: Evolutionary Clues About Functions and Mechanisms Potentially Related to Pain

(2018) Edgar T. Walters   Frontiers in Physiology

Physiological Changes as a Measure of Crustacean Welfare under Different Standardized Stunning Techniques: Cooling and Electroshock

(2018) Kristin Weineck et al.   Animals

Revealing the by-catch reducing potential of pulse trawls in the brown shrimp (crangon crangon) fishery

(2018) Bart Verschueren et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Consequences of oral lure retention on the physiology and behaviour of adult northern pike ( Esox lucius L.)

(2017) Christopher E. Pullen et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Responses of larval zebrafish to low pH immersion assay. Comment on Lopez-Luna et al.

(2017) B. K. Diggles et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Cost of Lice: Quantifying the Impacts of Parasitic Sea Lice on Farmed Salmon

(2017) Jay Abolofia et al.   Marine Resource Economics

Are plants sentient?

(2017) Paco Calvo et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Stress is not pain. Comment on Elwood and Adams (2015) ‘Electric shock causes physiological stress responses in shore crabs, consistent with prediction of pain’

(2016) E. D. Stevens et al.   Biology Letters

Arthropod neurons and nervous system

(2016) Carmen Ramona Smarandache-Wellmann   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolution of highly diverse forms of behavior in molluscs

(2016) Binyamin Hochner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The natural selection of bad science

(2016) Paul E. Smaldino et al.   Royal Society Open Science

The behavioural repertoire of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus(L.)) in captivity: a case study for testing ethogram completeness and reducing observer effects

(2015) Marta Bolgan et al.   ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH

FISH Out of WATER: How Much Air is Too Much?

(2015) Katrina V. Cook et al.   FISHERIES

Development of resources to promote best practice in the humane dispatch of finfish caught by recreational fishers

(2015) B. K. Diggles   FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND ECOLOGY

Scallops caught in the headlights: swimming escape behaviour of the Atlantic sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) reduced by artificial light

(2015) Liese A. Siemann et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Guidelines for the Care and Welfare of Cephalopods in Research –A consensus based on an initiative by CephRes, FELASA and the Boyd Group

(2015) Graziano Fiorito et al.   LABORATORY ANIMALS

Fish can show emotional fever: stress-induced hyperthermia in zebrafish

(2015) Sonia Rey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Systematic Review

(2014) Edoardo Aromataris et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NURSING

Defining and assessing animal pain

(2014) Lynne U. Sneddon et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Fish do not feel pain and its implications for understanding phenomenal consciousness

(2014) Brian Key   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

Cephalopods in neuroscience: regulations, research and the 3Rs

(2014) Graziano Fiorito et al.   INVERTEBRATE NEUROSCIENCE

Physiological and Behavioural Responses to Noxious Stimuli in the Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua)

(2014) Jared R. Eckroth et al.   PLoS One

DoLeucochloridiumsporocysts manipulate the behaviour of their snail hosts?

(2013) W. Wesołowska et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Policy: Twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims

(2013) William J. Sutherland et al.   NATURE

Eyestalk ablation procedures to minimize pain in the freshwater prawn Macrobrachium americanum

(2012) Genaro Diarte-Plata et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Can fish really feel pain?

(2012) J D Rose et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

A Primer on Anti-Angling Philosophy and Its Relevance for Recreational Fisheries in Urbanized Societies

(2012) Robert Arlinghaus et al.   FISHERIES

The physiological consequences of catch-and-release angling: perspectives on experimental design, interpretation, extrapolation and relevance to stakeholders

(2012) S. J. Cooke et al.   FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND ECOLOGY

Assessing Stress and Predicting Mortality in Economically Significant Crustaceans

(2012) Allan W. Stoner   REVIEWS IN FISHERIES SCIENCE

The efficacy of three types of analgesic drugs in reducing pain in the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss

(2011) Jessica J. Mettam et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Welfare of aquatic organisms: Is there some faith-based HARKing going on here?

(2011) HI Browman et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

How Lysenkoism Became Pseudoscience: Dobzhansky to Velikovsky

(2011) Michael D. Gordin   JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY

Risk, uncertainty and regulation

(2011) J. R. Krebs   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Science as organized scepticism

(2011) R. M. May   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Ecology and welfare of aquatic animals in wild capture fisheries

(2011) B. K. Diggles et al.   REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES

Contrasting pragmatic and suffering-centred approaches to fish welfare in recreational angling

(2010) R. Arlinghaus et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Sound production in Caribbean spiny lobsterPanulirus argusand its role in escape during predatory attack byOctopus briareus

(2010) Peter E. Bouwma et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Do Decapod Crustaceans Have Nociceptors for Extreme pH?

(2010) Sakshi Puri et al.   PLoS One

Brainless behavior: A myxomycete chooses a balanced diet

(2010) J. T. Bonner   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nociceptors: a phylogenetic view

(2009) Ewan St. John Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

The role of the arthropod stomatogastric nervous system in moulting behaviour and ecdysis

(2009) A. Ayali   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon: an argument for multiple comparisons correction

(2009) CM Bennett et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Chemotaxis: finding the way forward with Dictyostelium

(2009) Jason S. King et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

(2009) Jack Trevors   WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION

The effects of the acetic acid “pain” test on feeding, swimming, and respiratory responses of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

(2008) Nathalie C. Newby et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

The effects of the acetic acid “pain” test on feeding, swimming, and respiratory responses of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): A critique on Newby and Stevens (2008)—Response

(2008) Nathalie C. Newby et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Adaptations to host infection and larval parasitism in Unionoida

(2008) M. Christopher Barnhart et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BENTHOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Bacteria 'can learn'

(2008) Michael Hopkin   NATURE

Nociception or pain in a decapod crustacean?

(2007) Stuart Barr et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR