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Homeodomain protein Otp affects developmental neuropeptide switching in oxytoci...
Wircer, Einav; Blechman, Janna; Borodovsky, Nataliya; Tsoory, Michael; Nunes, Ana Rita; Oliveira, Rui F; Levkowitz, GilProper response to stress and social stimuli depends on orchestrated development of hypothalamic neuronal circuits. Here we address the effects of the developmental transcription factor orthopedia (Otp) on hypothalamic development and function. We show that developmental mutations in the zebrafish paralogous gene otpa but not otpb affect both stress response and social preference. These behavioral phenotypes we...
Social odors conveying dominance and reproductive information induce rapid phys...
Simões, José M; Barata, Eduardo N; Harris, Rayna M; O’Connell, Lauren A; Hofmann, Hans A; Oliveira, Rui FSocial plasticity is a pervasive feature of animal behavior. Animals adjust the expression of their social behavior to the daily changes in social life and to transitions between life-history stages, and this ability has an impact in their Darwinian fitness. This behavioral plasticity may be achieved either by rewiring or by biochemically switching nodes of the neural network underlying social behavior in respo...
Linking appraisal to behavioral flexibility in animals: implications for stress...
Faustino, Ana I; Oliveira, Gonçalo A; Oliveira, Rui FIn fluctuating environments, organisms require mechanisms enabling the rapid expression of context-dependent behaviors. Here, we approach behavioral flexibility from a perspective rooted in appraisal theory, aiming to provide a better understanding on how animals adjust their internal state to environmental context. Appraisal has been defined as a multi-component and interactive process between the individual a...
Arginine vasotocin regulation of interspecific cooperative behaviour in a clean...
Soares, Marta C; Bshary, Redouan; Mendonça, Rute; Grutter, Alexandra S; Oliveira, Rui FIn an interspecific cooperative context, individuals must be prepared to tolerate close interactive proximity to other species but also need to be able to respond to relevant social stimuli in the most appropriate manner. The neuropeptides vasopressin and oxytocin and their non-mammalian homologues have been implicated in the evolution of sociality and in the regulation of social behaviour across vertebrates. H...