Dominance hierarchy regulates social behavior during spatial movement.

ABSTRACT: Rodents establish dominance hierarchy as a social ranking system in which one subject acts as dominant over all the other subordinate individuals. Dominance hierarchy regulates food access and mating opportunities, but little is known about its significance in other social behaviors, for instance during collective navigation for foraging or migration. Here, we implemented a simplified goal-directed spatial task in mice, in which animals navigated individually or collectively with their littermates foraging for food. We compared between conditions and found that the social condition exerts significant influence on individual displacement patterns, even when efficient navigation rules leading to reward had been previously learned. Thus, movement patterns and consequent task performance were

SUBMITTER: Lara-Vasquez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10879816 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature