TY - JOUR
T1 - Orientation behaviour in sticklebacks
T2 - Modified by experience or population specific?
AU - Girvan, Joanna R.
AU - Braithwaite, Victoria A.
N1 - Funding Information:
1) Corresponding author; e-mail address: [email protected] 2) We thank Graeme McKenzie and Iain Barber for their help with this work. Lucy Odling-Smee, Harman Peeke, Ric Taoryand lan anonymous referee provided helpful discussonsiand comments on the manuscript. JRG was funded by a NERC studentship.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - To investigate the mechanisms underlying preferred spatial information use in Three-spined sticklebacks we reared fish derived from contrasting habitats (pond and river populations) under a range of conditions. The rearing conditions were designed to determine whether the spatial information used by sticklebacks is population specific, whether it is learned or whether it is produced by an interaction between these two factors. Fish reared under different conditions were trained to solve two experimental tasks to determine what spatial information they preferred to use. The results indicate that the fish learned spatial cues relevant to the environment that they were raised in but there was also evidence of a gene by environment interaction that influenced which spatial cues were learned.
AB - To investigate the mechanisms underlying preferred spatial information use in Three-spined sticklebacks we reared fish derived from contrasting habitats (pond and river populations) under a range of conditions. The rearing conditions were designed to determine whether the spatial information used by sticklebacks is population specific, whether it is learned or whether it is produced by an interaction between these two factors. Fish reared under different conditions were trained to solve two experimental tasks to determine what spatial information they preferred to use. The results indicate that the fish learned spatial cues relevant to the environment that they were raised in but there was also evidence of a gene by environment interaction that influenced which spatial cues were learned.
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U2 - 10.1163/156853900502475
DO - 10.1163/156853900502475
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034360113
SN - 0005-7959
VL - 137
SP - 833
EP - 843
JO - Behaviour
JF - Behaviour
IS - 7-8
ER -