A5050118849- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
- Marine and fisheries research
- Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Universidade do Porto
2015-2018
Google (United States)
2016
Cleaning behavior is known as a classic example of cooperation between unrelated individuals. Although much the behavioral processes underlying cooperative behavior, physiological pathways mediating remain relatively obscure. Here, we show that altering activity serotonin on wild cleaner wrasses Labroides dimidiatus has causal effects both social and activities. These cleaners cooperate by removing ectoparasites from visiting "client" reef fishes but prefer to eat client mucus, which...
Abstract Humans and other animals use previous experiences to make behavioural decisions, balancing the probabilities of receiving rewards or punishments with alternative actions. The dopaminergic system plays a key role in this assessment: for instance, decrease dopamine transmission, which is signalled by failure an expected reward, may elicit distinct response. Here, we tested effect exogenously administered compounds on cooperative vertebrate’s decision-making process, natural setting....
Accurate contextual decision-making strategies are important in social environments. Specific areas the brain tasked to process these complex interactions and generate correct follow-up responses. The dorsolateral dorsomedial parts of telencephalon teleost fish neural substrates modulated by neurotransmitter dopamine (DA), part an circuitry that drives animal behaviour from most basic actions such as learning search for food, properly choosing partners managing decisions based on context....
Social familiarization is a process of gaining knowledge that results from direct or indirect participation in social events. Cooperative exchanges are thought to be conditional upon familiarity with others. Indeed, individuals seem prefer engage those have previously interacted them, which more accurate predictors reward than novel partners. On the other hand, highly animals do seek novelty. Truth physiological bases underlying how and novelty may affect cooperative decision-making still...
The monoamines serotonin and dopamine are important neuromodulators present in the central nervous system, known to be active regulators of social behaviour fish as other vertebrates. Our aim was investigate region-specific brain monoaminergic differences arising when individual cleaners face a client (mutualistic context) compared they introduced another conspecific (conspecific context), understand relevance visual assessment impact physical contact with any partner. We demonstrated that...
Abstract Social interactions are commonly found among fish as in mammals and birds. While most animals interact socially with conspecifics some however also frequently repeatedly observed to other species (i.e. mutualistic interactions). This is the case of (so-called) clients that seek be cleaned by (the cleaners). Clients face an interesting challenge: they raise enough motivation suspend their daily activities selectively visit engage cleaners. Here we aimed, for first time, investigate...