[en] In teleost fishes, the lateral system is assumed to contribute, among other roles, to maintaining schooling behaviour. Sight is also assumed to play a role in schooling, as fish with a cut lateral line do not stop schooling unless they are also blinded. This conclusion, however, is based on experiments where only the trunk lateral line was inactivated, leaving the head lateral system intact. We investigated how inactivation of the whole lateral system affects fish shoaling behaviour. Groups of firehead tetras, Hemigrammus bleheri, were videorecorded before and after inactivation of their whole lateral system with aminoglycoside antibiotics (and also in sham-treated specimens). Shoaling behaviour was characterized by nearest distance to the first, second and third neighbours, shoal radius, shoal order parameter and the number of collisions between individuals. Scanning electron microscope observations showed damage to most superficial neuromasts as a result of antibiotic treatment. Importantly, the antibiotic-treated fish proved unable to maintain a shoal. After the end of the treatment, however, they recovered both a normal tissue morphology and normal shoaling behaviour within about a month. The lateral system is thus more crucial to shoaling behaviour than previously believed.
Research Center/Unit :
Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Faucher, Karine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Morphologie fonctionnelle et évolutive
Parmentier, Eric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Morphologie fonctionnelle et évolutive
Becco, Christophe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Département de physique
Vandewalle, Nicolas ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Physique statistique
Vandewalle, Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Morphologie fonctionnelle et évolutive
Language :
English
Title :
Fish lateral system is required for accurate control of shoaling behaviour
Publication date :
2010
Journal title :
Animal Behaviour
ISSN :
0003-3472
eISSN :
1095-8282
Publisher :
Academic Press, London, United Kingdom
Volume :
79
Pages :
679-687
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
Study of the implications of the acoustico-lateralis system in the ontogeny and dynamic of fish shoaling behaviour
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