Multispecies collective waving behaviour in fish
العنوان: | Multispecies collective waving behaviour in fish |
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المؤلفون: | Juliane Lukas, Jens Krause, Arabella Sophie Träger, Jonas Marc Piotrowski, Pawel Romanczuk, Henning Sprekeler, Lenin Arias-Rodriguez, Stefan Krause, Christopher Schutz, David Bierbach |
المصدر: | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378 |
بيانات النشر: | The Royal Society, 2023. |
سنة النشر: | 2023 |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
الوصف: | Collective behaviour is widely accepted to provide a variety of antipredator benefits. Acting collectively requires not only strong coordination among group members, but also the integration of among-individual phenotypic variation. Therefore, groups composed of more than one species offer a unique opportunity to look into the evolution of both mechanistic and functional aspects of collective behaviour. Here, we present data on mixed-species fish shoals that perform collective dives. These repeated dives produce water waves capable of delaying and/or reducing the success of piscivorous bird attacks. The large majority of the fish in these shoals consist of the sulphur molly, Poecilia sulphuraria , but we regularly also found a second species, the widemouth gambusia, Gambusia eurystoma , making these shoals mixed-species aggregations. In a set of laboratory experiments, we found that gambusia were much less inclined to dive after an attack as compared with mollies, which almost always dive, though mollies dived less deep when paired with gambusia that did not dive. By contrast, the behaviour of gambusia was not influenced by the presence of diving mollies. The dampening effect of less responsive gambusia on molly diving behaviour can have strong evolutionary consequences on the overall collective waving behaviour as we expect shoals with a high proportion of unresponsive gambusia to be less effective at producing repeated waves. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Collective behaviour through time’. |
تدمد: | 1471-2970 0962-8436 |
URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::469fa35c1c4e28fbce62280fd963675c https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0069 |
حقوق: | CLOSED |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........469fa35c1c4e28fbce62280fd963675c |
قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
تدمد: | 14712970 09628436 |
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