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Lateralized kinematics of predation behavior in a Lake Tanganyika scale-eating cichlid fish.
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- Structural manipulations of a shelter resource reveal underlying preference functions in a shell-dwelling cichlid fish.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Rapid adaptive evolution of scale-eating kinematics to a novel ecological niche.The Journal of experimental biology · 2020Article
- Brain and Behavioral Asymmetry: A Lesson From Fish.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2020Review
- Gene(s) and individual feeding behavior: Exploring eco-evolutionary dynamics underlying left-right asymmetry in the scale-eating cichlid fishEcology and evolution · 2018Article
- Lateralized Feeding Behavior is Associated with Asymmetrical Neuroanatomy and Lateralized Gene Expressions in the Brain in Scale-Eating Cichlid Fish.Genome biology and evolution · 2017Article
- Lateralized scale-eating behaviour of cichlid is acquired by learning to use the naturally stronger side.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- An Evolutionary Hypothesis of Binary Opposition in Functional Incompatibility about Habenular Asymmetry in Vertebrates.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2016Article
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- Genetic and environmental effects on the morphological asymmetry in the scale-eating cichlid fish, Perissodus microlepis.Ecology and evolution · 2015Article
- Measuring and evaluating morphological asymmetry in fish: distinct lateral dimorphism in the jaws of scale-eating cichlids.Ecology and evolution · 2013Article
- Poor correlation between the removal or deposition of pollen grains and frequency of pollinator contact with sex organs.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2013Article
- Mouth asymmetry in the textbook example of scale-eating cichlid fish is not a discrete dimorphism after all.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2012Article
- Handed foraging behavior in scale-eating cichlid fish: its potential role in shaping morphological asymmetry.PloS one · 2012Article
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Abstract
Behavioral lateralization has been documented in many vertebrates. The scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis is well known for exhibiting lateral dimorphism in its mouth morphology and lateralized behavior in robbing scales from prey fish. A previous field study indicated that this mouth asymmetry closely correlates with the side on which prey is attacked, but details of this species' predation behavior have not been previously analyzed because of the rapidity of the movements. Here, we studied scale-eating behavior in cichlids in a tank through high-speed video monitoring and quantitative assessment of behavioral laterality and kinematics. The fish observed showed a clear bias toward striking on one side, which closely correlated with their asymmetric mouth morphologies. Furthermore, the maximum angular velocity and amplitude of body flexion were significantly larger during attacks on the preferred side compared to those on the nonpreferred side, permitting increased predation success. In contrast, no such lateral difference in movement elements was observed in acoustically evoked flexion during the escape response, which is similar to flexion during scale eating and suggests that they share a common motor control pathway. Thus the neuronal circuits controlling body flexion during scale eating may be functionally lateralized upstream of this common motor pathway.
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