ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2024
Insights into adaptive behavioural plasticity from the guppy model system.
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- Sociability Under Anthropogenic Change: From Individual Behaviour to Population-Level Consequences.Ecology and evolution · 2026Review
- Histology of Liver Vascular-Biliary Tracts and Associated Exocrine Pancreas in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) at Three Post-Hatch Ages.Anatomia, histologia, embryologia · 2026Article
- Fish adapt and dynamically avoid an approaching robotic fish across repeated exposures.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Exposure to Predators Induces Phenotypic Plasticity in Cone Opsin Expression Profiles but not in Eye Size of Female Trinidad Guppies.Zoological studies · 2026Article
- Seasonal coat-colour moulting phenology of snowshoe hares in a Yukon boreal forest undergoing climate change.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Abiotic environmental factors contribute to spatial variation in boldness and exploration in guppies (Poecilia reticulata).Journal of fish biology · 2025Article
- Developmental Behavioural Plasticity and DNA Methylation Patterns in Response to Predation Stress in Trinidadian Guppies.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Rapid Neural DNA Methylation Responses to Predation Stress in Trinidadian Guppies.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Current predation risk has opposing effects on social learning of foraging locations across two guppy populations.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Cognitive individual differences are key in the network of trait covariance.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Behavioural plasticity allows organisms to respond to environmental challenges on short time scales. But what are the ecological and evolutionary processes that underlie behavioural plasticity? The answer to this question is complex and requires experimental dissection of the physiological, neural and molecular mechanisms contributing to behavioural plasticity as well as an understanding of the ecological and evolutionary contexts under which behavioural plasticity is adaptive. Here, we discuss key insights that research with Trinidadian guppies has provided on the underpinnings of adaptive behavioural plasticity. First, we present evidence that guppies exhibit contextual, developmental and transgenerational behavioural plasticity. Next, we review work on behavioural plasticity in guppies spanning three ecological contexts (predation, parasitism and turbidity) and three underlying mechanisms (endocrinological, neurobiological and genetic). Finally, we provide three outstanding questions that could leverage guppies further as a study system and give suggestions for how this research could be done. Research on behavioural plasticity in guppies has provided, and will continue to provide, a valuable opportunity to improve understanding of the ecological and evolutionary causes and consequences of behavioural plasticity.
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