Phenotypic architecture of sociality and its associated genetic polymorphisms in zebrafish.

ABSTRACT: Sociality relies on motivational and cognitive components that may have evolved independently, or may have been linked by phenotypic correlations driven by a shared selective pressure for increased social competence. Furthermore, these components may be domain-specific or of general-domain across social and non-social contexts. Here, we used zebrafish to test if the motivational and cognitive components of social behavior are phenotypically linked and if they are domain specific or of general domain. The behavioral phenotyping of zebrafish in social and equivalent non-social tests shows that the motivational (preference) and cognitive (memory) components of sociality: (1) are independent from each other, hence not supporting the occurrence of a sociality syndrome; and (2) are phenotypicall

SUBMITTER: Goncalves C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9744564 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature