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Abstract(s)
Zebrafish are an established model organism in developmental and
behavioral neuroscience, also recently emerging as an excellent model to study
social behavior. Zebrafish are highly social, forming groups (shoals) with structured
social relationships, dominance hierarchies and overt territoriality. Moreover,
social behavior in zebrafish exhibits considerable plasticity both within- (i.e., as a
context-dependent
behavior) and between individuals (e.g., sex-differences, personality
and coping styles) of the same strain, as well as between strains. This richness
and plasticity of social behavior, together with the genetic tools available to
visualize and manipulate neural circuits in zebrafish places it in the forefront of
studying the neurobiological mechanisms underlying complex social behavior.
Here, we review the cognitive abilities involved in social behavior, as well as the
different functional classes of social behavior present in zebrafish and their
variation.
We also highlight recent ground-breaking methodological developments
in the field, including automated image-based tracking and classification of behavior
coupled with video-animated
social stimuli, which collectively foster the
development
of future high-throughput screens of zebrafish social phenotypes.
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Keywords
Social behavior Social cognition Shoaling Aggression Mating
Citation
Nunes, A. R.(2017) Social phenotypes Zebrafish, 95-130 in Kalueff, A.V. (ed.), The rights and wrongs of zebrafish: Behavioral phenotyping of zebrafish,