Context-dependent chemosensory signaling, aggression and neural activation patterns in gravid female African cichlid fish

The Journal of Experimental Biology
Karen E Field, Karen P Maruska

Abstract

Social animals must constantly assess their environment to make appropriate behavioral decisions. The use of various sensory modalities is imperative in this process and it is hypothesized that the highly conserved brain nuclei comprising the social decision-making network (SDMN) integrates social information with an animal's internal state to elicit behavioral responses. Here, we used the highly social African cichlid fish,Astatotilapia burtoni, to investigate whether reproductively receptive (gravid) females show contextual chemosensory signaling, social behaviors and neural activation patterns within the SDMN. We exposed gravid females to different social contexts: (1) dominant male (inter-sexual reproductive); (2) mouth brooding (non-receptive) female; (3) gravid female (intra-sexual aggressive); (4) juvenile fish (low social salience); and (5) empty compartment (control). By injecting females with a blue dye to visualize urine pulses, we found that gravid females show context-dependent urination, exhibiting higher urination rates in the presence of dominant males (reproductive context) and mouth brooding females (aggressive contexts). Further, gravid females show contextual aggression with increased aggressive displays tow...Continue Reading

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Mar 27, 2019·Scientific Reports·Alexandre A Nikonov, Karen P Maruska
Oct 17, 2019·Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience·Olinda AlmeidaRui F Oliveira
Mar 10, 2018·ACS Chemical Neuroscience·Karen P Maruska, Russell D Fernald

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