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The social transmission of stress in animal collectives
The stress systems are powerful mediators between the organism's systemic dynamic equilibrium and changes in its environment beyond the level of anticipated fluctuations. Over- or under-activation of the stress systems' responses can impact an animal's health, survival and reproductiv...
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The Royal Society
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9091854/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35538776 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2158 |
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author | Brandl, Hanja B. Pruessner, Jens C. Farine, Damien R. |
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description | The stress systems are powerful mediators between the organism's systemic dynamic equilibrium and changes in its environment beyond the level of anticipated fluctuations. Over- or under-activation of the stress systems' responses can impact an animal's health, survival and reproductive success. While physiological stress responses and their influence on behaviour and performance are well understood at the individual level, it remains largely unknown whether—and how—stressed individuals can affect the stress systems of other group members, and consequently their collective behaviour. Stressed individuals could directly signal the presence of a stressor (e.g. via an alarm call or pheromones), or an acute or chronic activation of the stress systems could be perceived by others (as an indirect cue) and spread via social contagion. Such social transmission of stress responses could then amplify the effects of stressors by impacting social interactions, social dynamics and the collective performance of groups. As the neuroendocrine pathways of the stress response are highly conserved among vertebrates, transmission of physiological stress states could be more widespread among non-human animals than previously thought. We therefore suggest that identifying the extent to which stress transmission modulates animal collectives represents an important research avenue. |
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spelling | pubmed-90918542022-05-14 The social transmission of stress in animal collectives Brandl, Hanja B. Pruessner, Jens C. Farine, Damien R. Proc Biol Sci Review Articles The stress systems are powerful mediators between the organism's systemic dynamic equilibrium and changes in its environment beyond the level of anticipated fluctuations. Over- or under-activation of the stress systems' responses can impact an animal's health, survival and reproductive success. While physiological stress responses and their influence on behaviour and performance are well understood at the individual level, it remains largely unknown whether—and how—stressed individuals can affect the stress systems of other group members, and consequently their collective behaviour. Stressed individuals could directly signal the presence of a stressor (e.g. via an alarm call or pheromones), or an acute or chronic activation of the stress systems could be perceived by others (as an indirect cue) and spread via social contagion. Such social transmission of stress responses could then amplify the effects of stressors by impacting social interactions, social dynamics and the collective performance of groups. As the neuroendocrine pathways of the stress response are highly conserved among vertebrates, transmission of physiological stress states could be more widespread among non-human animals than previously thought. We therefore suggest that identifying the extent to which stress transmission modulates animal collectives represents an important research avenue. The Royal Society 2022-05-11 2022-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9091854/ /pubmed/35538776 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2158 Text en © 2022 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Review Articles Brandl, Hanja B. Pruessner, Jens C. Farine, Damien R. The social transmission of stress in animal collectives |
title | The social transmission of stress in animal collectives |
title_full | The social transmission of stress in animal collectives |
title_fullStr | The social transmission of stress in animal collectives |
title_full_unstemmed | The social transmission of stress in animal collectives |
title_short | The social transmission of stress in animal collectives |
title_sort | social transmission of stress in animal collectives |
topic | Review Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9091854/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35538776 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2158 |
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