ArticleScientific reports2016
Dopamine disruption increases negotiation for cooperative interactions in a fish.
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- Exploring cooperation among social pathogens: a computational perspective.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- The role of dopamine in foraging decisions in social insects.Frontiers in insect science · 2025Review
- Neural mechanisms of mutualistic fish cleaning behaviour: a study in the wild.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Anguillid Eels as a Model Species for Understanding Endocrinological Influences on the Onset of Spawning Migration of Fishes.Biology · 2022Review
- Cohabitation With Atlantic Salmon (Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Early social deprivation shapes neuronal programming of the social decision-making network in a cooperatively breeding fish.Molecular ecology · 2021Article
- Testosterone causes pleiotropic effects on cleanerfish behaviour.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Neurobiological and behavioural responses of cleaning mutualisms to ocean warming and acidification.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Monoaminergic levels at the forebrain and diencephalon signal for the occurrence of mutualistic and conspecific engagement in client reef fish.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- 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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Abstract
Humans and other animals use previous experiences to make behavioural decisions, balancing the probabilities of receiving rewards or punishments with alternative actions. The dopaminergic system plays a key role in this assessment: for instance, a decrease in dopamine transmission, which is signalled by the failure of an expected reward, may elicit a distinct behavioural response. Here, we tested the effect of exogenously administered dopaminergic compounds on a cooperative vertebrate's decision-making process, in a natural setting. We show, in the Indo-Pacific bluestreak cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus, that blocking dopamine receptors in the wild induces cleaners to initiate more interactions with and to provide greater amounts of physical contact to their client fish partners. This costly form of tactile stimulation using their fins is typically used to prolong interactions and to reconcile with clients after cheating. Interestingly, client jolt rate, a correlate of cheating by cleaners, remained unaffected. Thus, in low effective dopaminergic transmission conditions cleaners may renegotiate the occurrence and duration of the interaction with a costly offer. Our results provide first evidence for a prominent role of the dopaminergic system in decision-making in the context of cooperation in fish.
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