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Heterospecific shoaling in an invasive poeciliid: shared history does not affect shoal cohesion
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dc.contributor.author | Ali, Jarome R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Deacon, Amy E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Mahabir, Keshan | |
dc.contributor.author | Ramnarine, Indar W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Magurran, Anne E. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-20T00:38:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-20T00:38:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-04 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ali , J R , Deacon , A E , Mahabir , K , Ramnarine , I W & Magurran , A E 2018 , ' Heterospecific shoaling in an invasive poeciliid: shared history does not affect shoal cohesion ' , Animal Behaviour , vol. 138 , pp. 1-8 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.01.023 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0003-3472 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 252588689 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 66c0afdd-b26e-4827-aa83-48faefb73efc | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: urn:1CCD0500AD5052433EBFC9D5163796D6 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85042495625 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-0036-2795/work/43550224 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000429442200004 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/17320 | |
dc.description | A.E.M. acknowledges funding from the ERC (AdG BioTIME 250189 and PoC BioCHANGE 727440) and the Royal Society. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Social behaviour potentially plays an important role in invasion success. New colonists, for example, may glean useful information about predators and food by interacting with native heterospecifics. The extent to which invaders benefit from such social interactions could hinge on their prior exposure to other species. Here we asked how the shoaling decisions of the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata, a successful invasive species, are mediated by their shared history with a heterospecific, the phenotypically similar Micropoecilia picta. To do this, we monitored shoal cohesion in single-species treatments and in treatments where M. picta was present. We predicted that shoal cohesion would be greater in single- than in mixed-species shoals. We also hypothesized that mixed-species shoals consisting of fish with a shared history would be more cohesive than those where the two species had hitherto occurred allopatrically. We found that shoal cohesion did not differ between single- and two-species treatments, or in relation to shared history with M. picta. However, while guppies were more often found in mixed-species than single-species shoals, they were more likely to have a conspecific individual as their nearest neighbour within mixed-species shoals. These results show that guppies willingly shoal with heterospecifics, even in the absence of a shared history, but also that the resulting shoals are not randomly assembled. This flexibility in shoaling may confer a crucial advantage in the initial stages of invasion. | |
dc.format.extent | 8 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Animal Behaviour | en |
dc.rights | © 2018 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.01.023 | en |
dc.subject | Guppy | en |
dc.subject | Invasive species | en |
dc.subject | Poecilia reticulata | en |
dc.subject | Shoal cohesion | en |
dc.subject | Shoaling | en |
dc.subject | Social behaviour | en |
dc.subject | QH301 Biology | en |
dc.subject | NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH301 | en |
dc.title | Heterospecific shoaling in an invasive poeciliid: shared history does not affect shoal cohesion | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | European Research Council | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | European Research Council | en |
dc.description.version | Postprint | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Biology | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotland | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Institute | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. St Andrews Sustainability Institute | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Fish Behaviour and Biodiversity Research Group | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversity | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.01.023 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2019-03-20 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 250189 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 727440 | en |
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