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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Tong Wang, Xi Wang, Paul A. Garber, Bing-Hua Sun, Lixing Sun, Dong-Po Xia, Jin-Hua Li
Summary: Social play among infant Tibetan macaques exhibits sex-specific differences, with juvenile males engaging more in aggressive play while juvenile females participate more in affiliative play. This suggests that immature males use social play to develop skills needed for new social groups, while immature females use play to build long-term same-sex social bonds. These findings contribute to understanding the functional variations of social play in nonhuman primates.
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Psychology, Social
Lucia Lago-Gonzalez, Jonathan Bronchain, Henri Chabrol
Summary: The study found a significant minority of university students characterized by both psychopathic and borderline traits, exhibiting higher levels of self- and other-directed aggression.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2021)
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Business
Rajiv K. Amarnani, Simon Lloyd D. Restubog, Ruodan Shao, David C. Cheng, Prashant Bordia
Summary: This study extends the research on the relationship between customer mistreatment and customer-directed organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB-Cs) by examining the mechanisms of self-verification and the boundary conditions of self-esteem and entity customer appreciation. The findings reveal that customer mistreatment leads employees to feel less self-verified, especially among those with higher self-esteem. These employees are more likely to withhold OCB-Cs, particularly when they perceive lower levels of entity customer appreciation. Overall, these results deepen our understanding of how employees experience and react to customer mistreatment depending on their self-concept and perception of customers.
JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
(2022)
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Zoology
Regina Paxton Gazes, Allie E. Schrock, Corinne N. Leard, Meredith C. Lutz
Summary: This study examines the social behavior of brown capuchin monkeys, a species of platyrrhine primate, by analyzing age, sex, kinship, and dominance rank in relation to submissive, aggressive, contact, and grooming interactions. The findings suggest that brown capuchin monkeys exhibit a steep linear dominance hierarchy, tend to affiliate with kin, similarly aged animals, and like-ranked animals, and exhibit more aggression towards nonkin. However, unlike catarrhine monkeys, brown capuchins do not compete for access to higher ranking social partners.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
(2022)
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Ecology
Elizabeth F. R. Preston, Faye J. Thompson, Samuel Ellis, Solomon Kyambulima, Darren P. Croft, Michael A. Cant
Summary: Animal groups are heterogeneous assemblages of individuals with differing fitness interests, which may lead to internal conflict over investment in group territorial defence. Differences between individuals may lead to different behavioural responses to intergroup conflict, particularly between the sexes. These potential impacts have been little studied.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Fa-Jie Chen, Nicole Pinnette, Fan Yang, Jianmin Gao
Summary: In this study, we report a cysteine-directed proximity-driven strategy for constructing bicyclic peptides from simple natural peptide precursors. This linear to bicycle transformation involves rapid cysteine labeling and subsequent amine-selective cyclization. The bicyclization process occurs rapidly under physiological conditions, resulting in bicyclic peptides with Cys-Lys-Cys, Lys-Cys-Lys, or N-terminus-Cys-Cys stapling patterns. We demonstrate the utility and power of this strategy by constructing bicyclic peptides fused to proteins and the M13 phage, enabling the phage display of novel bicyclic peptide libraries.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2023)
Editorial Material
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Stefan Golas, Emma J. Chory
Summary: Enhanced ascorbate peroxidase 2 (APEX2), created through directed evolution by Lam et al., has revolutionized our understanding of subcellular structures and phenomena. The rapid kinetics of this engineered protein demonstrate the immense potential of directed evolution in expanding the molecular toolkit for biologists.
TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Bin Yang, Tomomi Karigo, David J. Anderson
Summary: Mating and aggression are innate social behaviours controlled by subcortical circuits. The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNSTpr) receives sex-specific olfactory cues from the medial amygdala and projects to hypothalamic nuclei that control mating and aggression. BNSTpr neurons shape sex- and behavior-specific neural representations in the hypothalamus, controlling the transition from appetitive to consummatory phases of male social behaviors.
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Clinical Neurology
Aleksey N. Ikrin, Anastasia M. Moskalenko, Radmir R. Mukhamadeev, Murilo S. de Abreu, Tatiana O. Kolesnikova, Allan Kalueff
Summary: This study analyzed a dataset of 227 genes, whose mutations can cause abnormal self-grooming in mice. Through the construction of a protein-protein interaction network, several molecular clusters related to various cellular processes were identified. Further bioinformatics analyses revealed key hub proteins within these clusters, which may be implicated in aberrant self-grooming and repetitive behaviors. Understanding the complex molecular pathways of this important behavior contributes to the understanding and potential treatment of related neurological disorders.
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
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Zoology
Charlotte Canteloup, Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, Cedric Sueur, Erica van de Waal
Summary: Individuals in the same group tend to maintain consistent network positions over time, but their network centralities do not correlate across different networks, except for Strength and weighted Eigenvector centrality between grooming and aggression networks. High-ranking individuals in the aggression network show the highest centrality in most network metrics, while females were most central in 2017 compared to males but not in 2018. The findings suggest that individuals' network centralities may vary among networks and over time, emphasizing the impact of sociodemographics and behavior functions on group-level dynamics of social behavior.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
(2021)
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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Julita Korczynska, Anna Szczuka, Julia Urzykowska, Michal Kochanowski, Neptun Gabriela Andrzejczyk, Kacper Jerzy Piwowarek, Ewa Joanna Godzinska
Summary: This study investigates the effects of ethanol and acetic acid on ant behavior, specifically in narrow-headed ants. The findings show that both ethanol and acetic acid significantly modify ant locomotion, exploratory behavior, self-grooming behavior, and aggression. Field studies may uncover more effects of experimental compounds compared to laboratory studies. These results expand the general knowledge about animal behavioral responses to ethanol and acetic acid.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Ilya S. Zhukov, Inessa Karpova, Nataliya A. Krotova, Ilya Y. Tissen, Konstantin A. Demin, Petr D. Shabanov, Evgeny A. Budygin, Allan Kalueff, Raul R. Gainetdinov
Summary: The study characterizes the behavioral and neurochemical phenotypes of TAAR1 knockout mice, finding that these mice exhibit increased aggression in the resident-intruder test, reduced self-grooming behavior in the novelty-induced grooming test, and higher cortical serotonin levels. The findings suggest a potential association between TAAR1 and aggression-related neuropsychiatric disorders.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
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Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Miljana Mladenovic, Vera Osmjanski, Stasa Vujicic Stankovic
Summary: This article explores the definitions, categorizations, targets, methods, and databases related to cyber-aggression, cyberbullying, and cyber-grooming. It also discusses the features and techniques used for automatic detection systems, as well as the directions for future system development.
ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Christian Guenter Schanz, Monika Equit, Sarah K. Schaefer, Tanja Michael
Summary: The study demonstrated the convergent validity of TPA-SD in outpatient samples, showing a significant association between self-directed passive aggression and self-compassion, self-esteem, self-harm mindset, and internal anger expression. Results regarding the discriminant validity of TPA-SD were heterogeneous, with small associations found with anger control and medium associations with impulsivity, particularly driven by the non-behavioral impulsivity dimension of inattention. Validity of TPA-OD was not supported by the study. Future research should focus on analyzing construct validity using larger and more diverse samples.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Leveda Cheng, Liran Samuni, Stefano Lucchesi, Tobias Deschner, Martin Surbeck
Summary: This study investigated the behavior and endocrine correlates of male bonobos during intergroup encounters. The results showed that despite overt intergroup aggression, male bonobos rarely engaged in coalitionary attacks and their testosterone levels did not increase during intergroup encounters. Moreover, they sacrificed affiliations with ingroup individuals and actively affiliated with outgroup individuals, particularly outgroup males.
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Zoology
Pawel Fedurek, Klaus Zuberbuehler, Stuart Semple
FRONTIERS IN ZOOLOGY
(2017)
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Zoology
Darcy L. Hannibal, Lauren C. Cassidy, Jessica Vandeleest, Stuart Semple, Allison Barnard, Katie Chun, Sasha Winkler, Brenda McCowan
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
(2018)
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Behavioral Sciences
Patrick J. Tkaczynski, Caroline Ross, Ann MacLarnon, Mohamed Mouna, Bonaventura Majolo, Julia Lehmann
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY
(2019)
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Biology
Juliette M. Berthier, Stuart Semple
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2018)
Article
Biology
Raphaela Heesen, Catherine Hobaiter, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Stuart Semple
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kevin A. Rosenfield, Stuart Semple, Alexander Georgiev, Dario Maestripieri, James P. Higham, Constance Dubuc
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
P. J. Tkaczynski, C. Ross, J. Lehmann, M. Mouna, B. Majolo, A. MacLarnon
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2019)
Article
Zoology
Lauren C. Cassidy, Darcy L. Hannibal, Stuart Semple, Brenda McCowan
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
(2020)
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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Emmeline R. Howarth, Caralyn Kemp, Harriet R. Thatcher, Isabelle D. Szott, David Farningham, Claire L. Witham, Amanda Holmes, Stuart Semple, Emily J. Bethell
Summary: Attention bias is a new approach to assess animal affect, focusing on the tendency to preferentially attend to emotional stimuli and influenced by underlying affect. By using two attention bias tasks, stable individual differences in baseline social attention were revealed, but sensitivity to brief shifts in emotion state may require further investigation. The tasks showed reproducibility and potential for developing standardized protocols with animals, highlighting the importance of considering various confounding factors and life history factors in future method development.
APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Eithne Kavanagh, Sally E. Street, Felix O. Angwela, Thore J. Bergman, Maryjka B. Blaszczyk, Laura M. Bolt, Margarita Briseno-Jaramillo, Michelle Brown, Chloe Chen-Kraus, Zanna Clay, Camille Coye, Melissa Emery Thompson, Alejandro Estrada, Claudia Fichtel, Barbara Fruth, Marco Gamba, Cristina Giacoma, Kirsty E. Graham, Samantha Green, Cyril C. Grueter, Shreejata Gupta, Morgan L. Gustison, Lindsey Hagberg, Daniela Hedwig, Katharine M. Jack, Peter M. Kappeler, Gillian King-Bailey, Barbora Kubenova, Alban Lemasson, David MacGregor Inglis, Zarin Machanda, Andrew MacIntosh, Bonaventura Majolo, Sophie Marshall, Stephanie Mercier, Jerome Micheletta, Martin Muller, Hugh Notman, Karim Ouattara, Julia Ostner, Mary S. M. Pavelka, Louise R. Peckre, Megan Petersdorf, Fredy Quintero, Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez, Martha M. Robbins, Roberta Salmi, Isaac Schamberg, Oliver Schuelke, Stuart Semple, Joan B. Silk, J. Roberto Sosa-Lopez, Valeria Torti, Daria Valente, Raffaella Ventura, Erica van de Waal, Anna H. Weyher, Claudia Wilke, Richard Wrangham, Christopher Young, Anna Zanoli, Klaus Zuberbuehler, Adriano R. Lameira, Katie Slocombe
Summary: This study found that dominant individuals in non-human primate species who were more tolerant tend to vocalize at a higher rate, while despotic species have a larger repertoire of hierarchy-related vocalizations. This suggests that primate signals evolve in relation to the nature of interactions that characterize individuals' social relationships.
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Ecology
Stuart Semple, Ramon Ferrer-I-Cancho, Morgan L. Gustison
Summary: Researchers have found that linguistic laws not only exist in language, but also across various levels of biology, proposing a new conceptual framework for studying these laws.
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2022)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Charlotte Carne, Stuart Semple, Ann MacLarnon, Bonaventura Majolo, Laetitia Marechal
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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Caralyn Kemp, Harriet Thatcher, David Farningham, Claire Witham, Ann MacLarnon, Amanda Holmes, Stuart Semple, Emily J. Bethell
APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE
(2017)
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Zoology
Alan V. Rincon, Laetitia Marechal, Stuart Semple, Bonaventura Majolo, Ann MacLarnon
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
(2017)