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Coping styles in farmed fish: consequences for aquaculture
Castanheira, Maria Filipa; Conceicao, Luis; Millot, Sandie; Rey, Sonia; Begout, Marie-Laure; Damsgard, Borge; Kristiansen, Tore; Hoglund, ErikIndividual differences in physiological and behavioural responses to stressors are increasingly recognised as adaptive variation and thus raw material for evolution and fish farming improvements including selective breeding. Such individual variation has been evolutionarily conserved and is present in all vertebrate taxa including fish. In farmed animals, the interest in consistent trait associations, that is c...
Linking fearfulness and coping styles in fish
Martins, Catarina I. M.; Silva, Patricia I. M.; Conceicao, Luis E. C.; Costas, Benjamin; Hoglund, Erik; Overli, Oyvind; Schrama, Johan W.Consistent individual differences in cognitive appraisal and emotional reactivity, including fearfulness, are important personality traits in humans, non-human mammals, and birds. Comparative studies on teleost fishes support the existence of coping styles and behavioral syndromes also in poikilothermic animals. The functionalist approach to emotions hold that emotions have evolved to ensure appropriate behavio...