Phenotypic architecture of sociality and its associated genetic polymorphisms in zebrafish

Gonçalves, Claúdia; Kareklas, Kyriacos; Teles, Magda C; Varela, Susana.A.M.; Costa, João; Leite, Ricardo B.; Paixão, Tiago; Oliveira, Rui Filipe

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Sociality relies on motivational and cognitive components that may have evolved independently, or may have been linked by phenotypic correlations driven by a shared selective pressure for increased social competence. Furthermore, these components may be domain-specific or of general-domain across social and non-social contexts. Here, we used zebrafish to test if the motivational and cognitive components of social behavior are phenotypically linked and if they are domain specific or of general domain. The behavioral phenotyping of zebrafish in social and equivalent non-social tests shows that the motivational (preference) and cognitive (memory) components of sociality: (1) are independent from each other, hence not supporting the occurrence of a sociality syndrome; and (2) are phenotypically linked to non-social traits, forming two general behavioral modules, suggesting that sociality traits have been co-opted from general-domain motivational and cognitive traits. Moreover, the study of the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and each behavioral module further supports this view, since several SNPs from a list of candidate “social” genes, are statistically associated with the motivational, but not with the cognitive, behavioral module. Together, these results support the occurrence of general-domain motivational and cognitive behavioral modules in zebrafish, which have been co-opted for the social domain. © 2022 The Authors. Genes, Brain and Behavior published by International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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phenotypic correlations SNP Social cognition Social recognition Social tendency Zebrafish

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Gonçalves, C., Kareklas, K., Teles, M. C., Varela, S. A. M., Costa, J., Leite, R. B., Paixão, T., & Oliveira, R. F. (2022). Phenotypic architecture of sociality and its associated genetic polymorphisms in zebrafish. Genes, Brain & Behavior, 1. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbb.12809