Social Learning of Acquiring Novel Feeding Habit in Mandarin Fish (Siniperca chuatsi).

ABSTRACT: Social learning plays important roles in gaining new foraging skills and food preferences. However, the potential role and molecular mechanism of social learning in acquiring new feeding habits is less clear in fish. In the present study, we examined the success rate of feeding habit domestication from live prey fish to dead prey fish, as well as the food intake of dead prey fish in mandarin fish with or without feeders of dead prey fish as demonstrators. Here, we found that mandarin fish can learn from each other how to solve novel foraging tasks, feeding on dead prey fish. In addition, the analysis of gene expressions and signaling pathways of learning through Western blotting and transcriptome sequencing shows that the expression of the c-fos, fra2, zif268, c/ebpd and sytIV

SUBMITTER: Peng J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6770103 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature