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Measurement and classification of bold-shy behaviours in medaka fish.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 2 Jun 2025
Pierotti Saul, Brettell Ian, Fitzgerald Tomas, Herder Cathrin, Aadepu Narendar, Pylatiuk Christian, Wittbrodt Joachim, Birney Ewan, Loosli Felix
Abstract excerpt
MOTIVATION: Boldness-shyness is considered a fundamental axis of behavioural variation in humans and other species, with obvious adaptive causes and evolutionary implications. Besides an individual's own genetics, this phenotype is also affected by the genetic make-up of peers in the individual's social environment. To identify genetic determinants of variation along the bold-shy behavioural axis, a reliable...
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- Animals
- Oryzias
- Behavior, Animal
- Markov Chains
- Phenotype