Endocrine and neuroendocrine regulation of social status in cichlid fishes

KP Maruska, CM Anselmo, T King, RB Mobley… - Hormones and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Position in a dominance hierarchy profoundly impacts group members' survival, health, and
reproductive success. Thus, understanding the mechanisms that regulate or are associated …

[PDF][PDF] Insights into the genomics of clownfish adaptive radiation: the genomic substrate of the diversification

A Marcionetti, N Salamin - Genome Biology and Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Clownfishes are an iconic group of coral reef fishes that evolved a mutualistic interaction
with sea anemones, which triggered the rapid diversification of the group. Following the …

Studying the evolution of social behaviour in one of Darwin's Dreamponds: a case for the Lamprologine shell-dwelling cichlids

E Lein, A Jordan - Hydrobiologia, 2021 - Springer
The link between the evolution of advanced sociality and cognition has been an important
concept across fields and taxonomic boundaries. However, in many study systems …

Egalitarian cooperation linked to central oxytocin levels in communal breeding house mice

S Fischer, C Duffield, WT Swaney, RL Bolton… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Relationships between adult females are fundamental to understanding diversity in animal
social systems. While cooperative relationships between kin are known to promote fitness …

Conservation and diversity in expression of candidate genes regulating socially-induced female-male sex change in wrasses

JT Thomas, EV Todd, S Muncaster, PM Lokman… - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Fishes exhibit remarkably diverse, and plastic, patterns of sexual development, most striking
of which is sequential hermaphroditism, where individuals readily reverse sex in adulthood …

Rapid spatial learning in cooperative and non-cooperative cichlids

MG Salena, A Singh, O Weller, XX Fang… - Behavioural …, 2022 - Elsevier
The number, duration and depth of social relationships that an individual maintains can
impact social cognition, but the connection between sociality and other aspects of cognition …

[HTML][HTML] Social regulation of arginine vasopressin and oxytocin systems in a wild group-living fish

BM Culbert, IY Ligocki, MG Salena, MYL Wong… - Hormones and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The neuropeptides arginine vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OXT) are key regulators of
social behaviour across vertebrates. However, much of our understanding of how these …

Wild guppies from populations exposed to higher predation risk exhibit greater vasotocin brain gene expression

AR Reddon, N Aubin‐Horth, SM Reader - Journal of Zoology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intraspecific variation in social behaviour is often observed among animal populations.
Local predation risk can be a key driver of these differences, with populations that are …

A reproductive role for the nonapeptides vasotocin and isotocin in male zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Z Altmieme, M Jubouri, K Touma, G Coté… - … and Physiology Part B …, 2019 - Elsevier
Two distinct nonapeptide systems, vasotocin-and oxytocin-related peptides, evolved in
vertebrates. Their role in male zebrafish reproduction has not been formally investigated. We …

Integrative neurobiology of social behavior in cichlid fish

AS Félix, RF Oliveira - The behavior, ecology and evolution of cichlid …, 2021 - Springer
Social behavior encompasses the interactions between individuals of the same species,
fundamental to their survival and reproduction. The study of these kinds of behavioral …