ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2016
Stimulation of dopamine D₁ receptor improves learning capacity in cooperating cleaner fish.
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- Early social deprivation shapes neuronal programming of the social decision-making network in a cooperatively breeding fish.Molecular ecology · 2021Article
- Monoaminergic levels at the forebrain and diencephalon signal for the occurrence of mutualistic and conspecific engagement in client reef fish.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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- Dopamine D1 receptor activation leads to object recognition memory in a coral reef fish.Biology letters · 2017Article
- Dopamine disruption increases cleanerfish cooperative investment in novel client partners.Royal Society open science · 2017Article
- The Neurobiology of Mutualistic Behavior: The Cleanerfish Swims into the Spotlight.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2017Review
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- Erratum issued
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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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 learning ability by presenting cleaner fish two ecologically different tasks that simulated a natural situation requiring accurate decision-making. We demonstrate that there is an involvement of the DA system and D1 receptor pathways on cleaners' natural abilities to learn both tasks. Our results add significantly to the growing literature on the physiological mechanisms that underlie and facilitate the expression of cooperative abilities.
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