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Research Areas
- Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
- Marine animal studies overview
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
2023
Emotional contagion is the most ancestral form of empathy. We tested to what extent proximate mechanisms emotional are evolutionarily conserved by assessing role oxytocin, known regulate empathic behaviors in mammals, social fear zebrafish. Using oxytocin and receptor mutants, we show that both necessary sufficient for observer zebrafish imitate distressed behavior conspecific demonstrators. The brain regions associated with homologous those involved same process rodents (e.g., striatum,...
10.1126/science.abq5158
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Science
2023-03-23
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