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Monoaminergic levels at the forebrain and diencephalon signal for the occurrence of mutualistic and conspecific engagement in client reef fish
Fed Univ Santa Maria UFSM, Grad Program Pharmacol, BR-97105900 Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
Univ Porto, Ctr Invest Biodiversidade & Recursos Genet, CIBIO, Campus Agr Vairao, P-4485661 Vairao, Portugal.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4252-3144
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2018 (English)In: Scientific Reports, E-ISSN 2045-2322, Vol. 8, article id 7346Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Social interactions are commonly found among fish as in mammals and birds. While most animals interact socially with conspecifics some however are also frequently and repeatedly observed to interact with other species (i.e. mutualistic interactions). This is the case of the (so-called) fish clients that seek to be cleaned by other fish (the cleaners). Clients face an interesting challenge: they raise enough motivation to suspend their daily activities as to selectively visit and engage in interactions with cleaners. Here we aimed, for the first time, to investigate the region-specific brain monoaminergic level differences arising from individual client fish when facing a cleaner (interspecific context) compared to those introduced to another conspecific (socio-conspecific context). We show that monoaminergic activity differences occurring at two main brain regions, the diencephalon and the forebrain, are associated with fish clients' social and mutualistic activities. Our results are the first demonstration that monoaminergic mechanisms underlie client fish mutualistic engagement with cleanerfish. These pathways should function as a pre-requisite for cleaning to occur, providing to clients the cognitive and physiological tools to seek to be cleaned.

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP , 2018. Vol. 8, article id 7346
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-358095DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25513-6ISI: 000431737300032PubMedID: 29743658OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-358095DiVA, id: diva2:1241736
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