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Aggressive dominance can decrease behavioral complexity on subordinates through synchronization of locomotor activities
Social environments are known to influence behavior. Moreover, within small social groups, dominant/subordinate relationships frequently emerge. Dominants can display aggressive behaviors towards subordinates and sustain priority access to resources. Herein, Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) were u...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6908596/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31872072 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0710-1 |
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author | Alcala, Rocio Soledad Caliva, Jorge Martin Flesia, Ana Georgina Marin, Raul Hector Kembro, Jackelyn Melissa |
author_facet | Alcala, Rocio Soledad Caliva, Jorge Martin Flesia, Ana Georgina Marin, Raul Hector Kembro, Jackelyn Melissa |
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description | Social environments are known to influence behavior. Moreover, within small social groups, dominant/subordinate relationships frequently emerge. Dominants can display aggressive behaviors towards subordinates and sustain priority access to resources. Herein, Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) were used, given that they establish hierarchies through frequent aggressive interactions. We apply a combination of different mathematical tools to provide a precise quantification of the effect of social environments and the consequence of dominance at an individual level on the temporal dynamics of behavior. Main results show that subordinates performed locomotion dynamics with stronger long-range positive correlations in comparison to birds that receive few or no aggressions from conspecifics (more random dynamics). Dominant birds and their subordinates also showed a high level of synchronization in the locomotor pattern, likely emerging from the lack of environmental opportunities to engage in independent behavior. Findings suggest that dominance can potentially modulate behavioral dynamics through synchronization of locomotor activities. |
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spelling | pubmed-69085962019-12-23 Aggressive dominance can decrease behavioral complexity on subordinates through synchronization of locomotor activities Alcala, Rocio Soledad Caliva, Jorge Martin Flesia, Ana Georgina Marin, Raul Hector Kembro, Jackelyn Melissa Commun Biol Article Social environments are known to influence behavior. Moreover, within small social groups, dominant/subordinate relationships frequently emerge. Dominants can display aggressive behaviors towards subordinates and sustain priority access to resources. Herein, Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) were used, given that they establish hierarchies through frequent aggressive interactions. We apply a combination of different mathematical tools to provide a precise quantification of the effect of social environments and the consequence of dominance at an individual level on the temporal dynamics of behavior. Main results show that subordinates performed locomotion dynamics with stronger long-range positive correlations in comparison to birds that receive few or no aggressions from conspecifics (more random dynamics). Dominant birds and their subordinates also showed a high level of synchronization in the locomotor pattern, likely emerging from the lack of environmental opportunities to engage in independent behavior. Findings suggest that dominance can potentially modulate behavioral dynamics through synchronization of locomotor activities. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6908596/ /pubmed/31872072 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0710-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Alcala, Rocio Soledad Caliva, Jorge Martin Flesia, Ana Georgina Marin, Raul Hector Kembro, Jackelyn Melissa Aggressive dominance can decrease behavioral complexity on subordinates through synchronization of locomotor activities |
title | Aggressive dominance can decrease behavioral complexity on subordinates through synchronization of locomotor activities |
title_full | Aggressive dominance can decrease behavioral complexity on subordinates through synchronization of locomotor activities |
title_fullStr | Aggressive dominance can decrease behavioral complexity on subordinates through synchronization of locomotor activities |
title_full_unstemmed | Aggressive dominance can decrease behavioral complexity on subordinates through synchronization of locomotor activities |
title_short | Aggressive dominance can decrease behavioral complexity on subordinates through synchronization of locomotor activities |
title_sort | aggressive dominance can decrease behavioral complexity on subordinates through synchronization of locomotor activities |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6908596/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31872072 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0710-1 |
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