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ArticleCell reports2025

Coordination and persistence of aggressive visual communication in Siamese fighting fish.

Claire P Everett, Amy L Norovich, Jessica E Burke, Matthew R Whiteway, Paula R Villamayor, Pei-Yin Shih, Yuyang Zhu, Liam Paninski, Andres Bendesky

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Article in Cell reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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9 authors.

Claire P EverettZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Amy L NorovichZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Jessica E BurkeZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Matthew R WhitewayZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Paula R VillamayorZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Pei-Yin ShihZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Yuyang ZhuZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Liam PaninskiZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Andres BendeskyZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. Electronic address: a.bendesky@columbia.edu.

Funding

State-dependent Decision-making in Brainwide Neural CircuitsU19NS123716 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI PANINSKI, LIAM M · 2021 to 2025
$18.2M
Vision Sciences Training GrantT32EY013933 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Carol A. Mason, CAROL M TROY · 2001 to 2026
$5.3M
Pioneering Betta splendens as a new vertebrate model for evolutionary and behavioral geneticsR35GM143051 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI BENDESKY, ANDRES · 2021 to 2025
$2.4M
Neuronal mechanisms of visually-driven aggressive behaviorR34NS116734 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI BENDESKY, ANDRES · 2020 to 2020
$720k
Genetics and neurobiology of aggression of Betta splendensK99GM151689 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI SHIH, PEI YIN · 2023 to 2024
$250k
NEI NIH HHS T32 EY013933NIGMS NIH HHS K99 GM151689NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM143051NINDS NIH HHS R34 NS116734NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS123716
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Outside acoustic communication, little is known about how animals coordinate social turn taking and how the brain drives engagement in these social interactions. Using Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens), we discover dynamic visual features of an opponent and behavioral sequences that drive visually driven turn-taking aggressive behavior. Lesions of the telencephalon show that it is unnecessary for coordinating turn taking but is required for persistent participation in aggressive interactions. Circumscribed lesions of the caudal dorsomedial telencephalon (cDm; the fish pallial amygdala) recapitulated the telencephalic lesions. Furthermore, ventral telencephalic regions and the thalamic preglomerular complex, all of which project to cDm, show increased activity during aggressive interactions. Our work highlights how dynamic visual cues shape the rhythm of social interactions at multiple timescales. The results point to the vertebrate pallial amygdala as a region with an evolutionarily conserved role in regulating the persistence of emotional states, including those that promote engagement in social interactions.

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AggressionAnimal CommunicationFishesAnimalsBehavior, AnimalSocial BehaviorTelencephalonaggressionamygdalaanimal communicationbehavioral neuroscienceBetta splendensCP: Neuroscienceemotional statesneuroethologysocial behaviorturn takingvisual neuroscience

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PMID39817907
PMCPMC11837226

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