Brain Transcriptomic Response to Social Eavesdropping in Zebrafish (Danio rerio).

ABSTRACT: Public information is widely available at low cost to animals living in social groups. For instance, bystanders may eavesdrop on signaling interactions between conspecifics and use it to adapt their subsequent behavior towards the observed individuals. This social eavesdropping ability is expected to require specialized mechanisms such as social attention, which selects social information available for learning. To begin exploring the genetic basis of social eavesdropping, we used a previously established attention paradigm in the lab to study the brain gene expression profile of male zebrafish (Danio rerio) in relation to the attention they paid towards conspecifics involved or not involved in agonistic interactions. Microarray gene chips were used to characterize their brain transcriptom

SUBMITTER: Lopes JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4700982 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature