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Fish lateral system is required for accurate control of shoaling behaviour
Faucher, Karine; Parmentier, Eric; Becco, Christophe et al.
2010Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Meeting
 

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Keywords :
fish; lateral system; schooling
Abstract :
[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, was based on experiments where only the trunk lateral line was inactivated, leaving the head lateral system intact. Here the aim was to test how inactivation of the whole lateral system affects the fish shoaling behaviour. Groups of firehead tetras, Hemigrammus bleheri, were video-recorded 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 neighbour, shoal radius, shoal order parameter, and the number of collisions between individuals. SEM 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 :
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
Event name :
Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Meeting
Event organizer :
SICB
Event place :
Seattle, United States
Event date :
du 3 janvier 2010 au 10 janvier 2010
Audience :
International
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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