Stimulation of dopamine D₁ receptor improves learning capacity in cooperating cleaner fish.

ABSTRACT: Accurate contextual decision-making strategies are important in social environments. Specific areas in the brain are tasked to process these complex interactions and generate correct follow-up responses. The dorsolateral and dorsomedial parts of the telencephalon in the teleost fish brain are neural substrates modulated by the neurotransmitter dopamine (DA), and are part of an important neural circuitry that drives animal behaviour from the most basic actions such as learning to search for food, to properly choosing partners and managing decisions based on context. The Indo-Pacific cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus is a highly social teleost fish species with a complex network of interactions with its 'client' reef fish. We asked if changes in DA signalling would affect individual learni

SUBMITTER: Messias JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4795016 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature