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ArticleScientific reports2020

Brain transcriptomics of agonistic behaviour in the weakly electric fish Gymnotus omarorum, a wild teleost model of non-breeding aggression.

Guillermo Eastman, Guillermo Valiño, Santiago Radío, Rebecca L Young, Laura Quintana, Harold H Zakon, Hans A Hofmann, José Sotelo-Silveira, Ana Silva

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Guillermo EastmanDepartamento de Genómica, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Guillermo ValiñoUnidad Bases Neurales de la Conducta, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Santiago RadíoDepartamento de Genómica, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Rebecca L YoungDepartment of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6230-1912
Laura QuintanaUnidad Bases Neurales de la Conducta, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Harold H ZakonDepartment of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.
Hans A HofmannDepartment of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3335-330X
José Sotelo-SilveiraDepartamento de Genómica, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay. jsotelosilveira@iibce.edu.uy.
Ana SilvaUnidad Bases Neurales de la Conducta, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay. asilva@fcien.edu.uy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2890-0353

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Differences in social status are often mediated by agonistic encounters between competitors. Robust literature has examined social status-dependent brain gene expression profiles across vertebrates, yet social status and reproductive state are often confounded. It has therefore been challenging to identify the neuromolecular mechanisms underlying social status independent of reproductive state. Weakly electric fish, Gymnotus omarorum, display territorial aggression and social dominance independent of reproductive state. We use wild-derived G. omarorum males to conduct a transcriptomic analysis of non-breeding social dominance relationships. After allowing paired rivals to establish a dominance hierarchy, we profiled the transcriptomes of brain sections containing the preoptic area (region involved in regulating aggressive behaviour) in dominant and subordinate individuals. We identified 16 differentially expressed genes (FDR < 0.05) and numerous genes that co-varied with behavioural traits. We also compared our results with previous reports of differential gene expression in other teleost species. Overall, our study establishes G. omarorum as a powerful model system for understanding the neuromolecular bases of social status independent of reproductive state.

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Agonistic BehaviorElectric FishGene Expression ProfilingAnimalsBrainMolecular Sequence AnnotationSocial Dominance

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