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dc.contributor.authorWebster, Mike
dc.contributor.authorLaland, Kevin Neville
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-17T14:35:15Z
dc.date.available2020-07-17T14:35:15Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-08
dc.identifier.citationWebster , M & Laland , K N 2020 , ' No evidence for individual recognition in threespine or ninespine sticklebacks ( Gasterosteus aculeatus or Pungitius pungitius ) ' , Royal Society Open Science , vol. 7 , no. 7 , 191703 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191703en
dc.identifier.issn2054-5703
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 268625158
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 13b024fb-d37e-4780-9b94-1672649cdb20
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-2457-0900/work/77524506
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-9597-6871/work/77525185
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85089817786
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000549819300001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20280
dc.descriptionFunding UK NERC NE/D010365/1, ERC Advanced Grant EVOCULTURE (232823).en
dc.description.abstractRecognition plays an important role in the formation and organization of animal groups. Many animals are capable of class-level recognition, discriminating, for example, on the basis of species, kinship or familiarity. Individual recognition requires that animals recognize distinct cues, and learn to associate these with the specific individual from which they are derived. In this study, we asked whether sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus and Pungitius pungitius) were capable of learning to recognize individual conspecifics. We have used these fish as model organisms for studying selective social learning, and demonstrating a capacity for individual recognition in these species would provide an exciting opportunity for studying how biases for copying specific individuals shape the dynamics of information transmission. To test for individual recognition, we trained subjects to associate green illumination with the provision of a food reward close to one of two conspecifics, and, for comparison, one of two physical landmarks. Both species were capable of recognizing the rewarded landmark, but neither showed a preference for associating with the rewarded conspecific. Our study provides no evidence for individual recognition in either species. We speculate that the fission–fusion structure of their social groups may not favour a capacity for individual recognition.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofRoyal Society Open Scienceen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.en
dc.subjectCognitionen
dc.subjectLearningen
dc.subjectSchoolingen
dc.subjectShoalingen
dc.subjectsocial informationen
dc.subjectSocial learningen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleNo evidence for individual recognition in threespine or ninespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus or Pungitius pungitius)en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorNERCen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Research Councilen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191703
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c. 5044130en
dc.identifier.grantnumberNE/D010365/1en
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