scholarly journals The dose makes the poison: Non-linear behavioural response to CO2-induced aquatic acidification in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

2021 ◽  
Vol 778 ◽  
pp. 146320
Author(s):  
Trevor J. Hamilton ◽  
Nicole Hurst Radke ◽  
Jasmin Bajwa ◽  
Shayna Chaput ◽  
Martin Tresguerres
Behaviour ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Arash Shahriari ◽  
Lakhan S. Khara ◽  
W. Ted Allison ◽  
Keith B. Tierney

Abstract Odorants guide essential activities such as foraging and fleeing predators. Studies usually examine behavioural and physiological effects of individual odorants, while animals in the environment are exposed to multiple stimuli simultaneously. In this study, we exposed zebrafish to a mixture of attraction-evoking and aversion-evoking amino acids, and behavioural responses were observed. Attraction to l-alanine and avoidance to l-cysteine were observed, and so these amino acids were used to make the mixture (zebrafish also avoided l-serine, but this was weaker than with l-cysteine exposures). When exposed to the mixture, fish responded with avoidance, which suggests that aversion-evoking stimuli outweigh attraction-evoking stimuli. Attraction towards the mixture was seen only when the concentration of l-cysteine was decreased from 0.1 to 0.001 mM. Olfactory ablation surgery confirmed that the behaviours were olfactory-mediated. Overall, this study demonstrated that odorant stimuli that repel outweigh stimuli that attract until their concentration decreases by as much as 100-fold.


1967 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 105-176
Author(s):  
Robert F. Christy

(Ed. note: The custom in these Symposia has been to have a summary-introductory presentation which lasts about 1 to 1.5 hours, during which discussion from the floor is minor and usually directed at technical clarification. The remainder of the session is then devoted to discussion of the whole subject, oriented around the summary-introduction. The preceding session, I-A, at Nice, followed this pattern. Christy suggested that we might experiment in his presentation with a much more informal approach, allowing considerable discussion of the points raised in the summary-introduction during its presentation, with perhaps the entire morning spent in this way, reserving the afternoon session for discussion only. At Varenna, in the Fourth Symposium, several of the summaryintroductory papers presented from the astronomical viewpoint had been so full of concepts unfamiliar to a number of the aerodynamicists-physicists present, that a major part of the following discussion session had been devoted to simply clarifying concepts and then repeating a considerable amount of what had been summarized. So, always looking for alternatives which help to increase the understanding between the different disciplines by introducing clarification of concept as expeditiously as possible, we tried Christy's suggestion. Thus you will find the pattern of the following different from that in session I-A. I am much indebted to Christy for extensive collaboration in editing the resulting combined presentation and discussion. As always, however, I have taken upon myself the responsibility for the final editing, and so all shortcomings are on my head.)


Optimization ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-559
Author(s):  
L. Gerencsér

2019 ◽  
Vol 133 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicenç Quera ◽  
Elisabet Gimeno ◽  
Francesc S. Beltran ◽  
Ruth Dolado

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
George W. Howe ◽  
James H. Dalton ◽  
Maurice J. Elias
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