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No evidence for individual recognition in threespine or ninespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus or Pungitius pungitius)
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dc.contributor.author | Webster, Mike | |
dc.contributor.author | Laland, Kevin Neville | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-17T14:35:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-17T14:35:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-07-08 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Webster , 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.191703 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2054-5703 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 268625158 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 13b024fb-d37e-4780-9b94-1672649cdb20 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-2457-0900/work/77524506 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-9597-6871/work/77525185 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85089817786 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000549819300001 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/20280 | |
dc.description | Funding UK NERC NE/D010365/1, ERC Advanced Grant EVOCULTURE (232823). | en |
dc.description.abstract | Recognition 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. | |
dc.format.extent | 10 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Royal Society Open Science | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © 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.subject | Cognition | en |
dc.subject | Learning | en |
dc.subject | Schooling | en |
dc.subject | Shoaling | en |
dc.subject | social information | en |
dc.subject | Social learning | en |
dc.subject | QH301 Biology | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH301 | en |
dc.title | No evidence for individual recognition in threespine or ninespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus or Pungitius pungitius) | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | NERC | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | European Research Council | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversity | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Biology | 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.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191703 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.url | https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c. 5044130 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/D010365/1 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | en |
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