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Sensory Ecology of Ostariophysan Alarm Substances

Caio Maximino
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Rhayra Xavier do Carmo Silva
,
Kimberly dos Santos Campos
,
Jeiseane Souza de Oliveira
,
Sueslene Prado Rocha
,
Maryana Pereira Pyterson
,
Dainara Pereira dos Santos Souza
,
Leonardo Feitosa Miranda
,
Saulo Rivera Ikeda
,
Ana Flávia Nogueira Pimentel
,
Pâmila Nayana Ferreira Ramos
,
Bruna Patrícia Dutra Costa
,
Anderson Manoel Herculano
,
Denis Broock Rosemberg
,
Diógenes Henrique Siqueira da Silva
,
Monica Lima Maximino
Version 1 : Received: 30 March 2018 / Approved: 31 March 2018 / Online: 31 March 2018 (16:45:52 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 22 August 2018 / Approved: 23 August 2018 / Online: 23 August 2018 (04:12:15 CEST)

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Maximino, C.; do Carmo Silva, R.X.; dos Santos Campos, K.; de Oliveira, J.S.; Rocha, S.P.; Pyterson, M.P.; dos Santos Souza, D.P.; Feitosa, L.M.; Ikeda, S.R.; Pimentel, A.F.N.; et al. Sensory Ecology of Ostariophysan Alarm Substances. Journal of Fish Biology 2018, 95, 274–286, doi:10.1111/jfb.13844. Maximino, C.; do Carmo Silva, R.X.; dos Santos Campos, K.; de Oliveira, J.S.; Rocha, S.P.; Pyterson, M.P.; dos Santos Souza, D.P.; Feitosa, L.M.; Ikeda, S.R.; Pimentel, A.F.N.; et al. Sensory Ecology of Ostariophysan Alarm Substances. Journal of Fish Biology 2018, 95, 274–286, doi:10.1111/jfb.13844.

Abstract

Chemical communication of predation risk has evolved multiple times in fish species, with the conspecific alarm substance (CAS) contemporaneously being the most well understood mechanism. CAS is released after epithelial damage, usually when prey fish is captured by a predator, and elicits neurobehavioral adjustments in conspecifics which increase the probability of avoiding predation. As such, CAS is a partial predator stimulus, eliciting risk assessment-like and avoidance behaviors, and disrupting the predator sequence. The present paper reviews the distribution and putative composition of CAS in fish, and presents a model for the neural processing of these structures by the olfactory and the brain aversive systems. Applications of CAS in the behavioral neurosciences and neuropharmacology are also presented, exploiting the potential of model fish (e.g., zebrafish, guppies, minnows) on neurobehavioral research.

Keywords

alarm substance; alarm signals; disturbance signals; fish; Ostariophysi

Subject

Social Sciences, Behavior Sciences

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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