Detalhes do Documento

Social Eavesdropping in Zebrafish

Autor(es): Abreu, Rodrigo Manuel Abril

Data: 2015

Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/18229

Origem: Repositório Institucional da UNL

Projeto/bolsa: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH%2FBD%2F33280%2F2007/PT; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/PTDC%2FPSI-PCO%2F118776%2F2010/PT;

Assunto(s): Biology; Neuroscience; Biology; Neuroscience


Descrição

Group living animals may eavesdrop on signalling interactions between conspecifics. This enables them to collect adaptively relevant information about others, without incurring in the costs of first-hand information acquisition. Such ability, aka social eavesdropping, is expected to impact Darwinian fitness and hence predicts the evolution of cognitive processes that enable social animals to use social information available in the environment.(...)

Tipo de Documento Tese de doutoramento
Idioma Inglês
Orientador(es) Oliveira, Rui
Contribuidor(es) RUN
Licença CC
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