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| Status |
Public on Feb 01, 2014 |
| Title |
Social odors conveying dominance and reproductive information induce rapid physiological and neuromolecular changes in a cichlid fish. |
| Platform organism |
Haplochromis burtoni |
| Sample organism |
Oreochromis mossambicus |
| Experiment type |
Expression profiling by array
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| Summary |
Social plasticity is a pervasive feature of animal behavior. Animals adjust the expression of their social behavior to the daily changes in social life and to transitions between life-history stages, and the ability to change in these ways impacts their Darwinian fitness. This behavioral plasticity may be achieved either by rewiring or by biochemically switching nodes of the neural network underlying the social behavior in response to perceived social information. Independent of the proximate mechanisms, at the neuromolecular level social plasticity relies on the regulation of gene expression, such that different neurogenomic states emerge in response to different social stimuli and the switches between states are orchestrated by signaling pathways that interface the social environment and the genotype. Here, we test this hypothesis by characterizing the changes in the brain profile of gene expression in response to social odors in the Mozambique Tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus. This species has a rich repertoire of social behaviors during which both visual and chemical information are conveyed to conspecifics. Specifically, dominant males increase their urination frequency during agonist encounters and during courtship to convey chemical information reflecting their dominance status. We recorded electro-olfactograms to test the extent to which the olfactory epithelium can discriminate between olfactory information from dominant and subordinate males as well as from pre- and post-spawning females. We then performed a genome-scale gene expression analysis of the olfactory bulb and the olfactory cortex homolog in order to identify the neuromolecular systems involved in processing these social stimuli. Our results show that different olfactory stimuli from conspecifics’ have a major impact in the brain transcriptome, with different chemical social cues eliciting specific patterns of gene expression in the brain. These results confirm the role of rapid changes in gene expression in the brain as a genomic mechanism underlying behavioural plasticity and reinforce the idea of an extensive transcriptional plasticity of cichlid genomes, especially in response to rapid changes in their social environment.
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| Overall design |
Brain samples from 40 African cichlid males, Oreochromis mossambicus were collected after stimulation with different social olfactory stimuli. Samples were collected from 2 brain areas: BO and Dp after males were exposed to dominant (DOM) and subordinate (SUB) male urine and pre- (PRE) and post-ovulatory (POST) female scent. In OB 5 replicates were collected from males exposed to DOM and 6 to the other stimuli. For Dp 5 replicates were collected from males exposed to DOM and POST, 4 to SUB and 6 to PRE.
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| Contributor(s) |
Simões JM, Barata EN, Harris RM, O'Connell LA, Oliveira RF, Hofmann HH |
| Citation missing |
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| Submission date |
Jan 28, 2014 |
| Last update date |
Feb 01, 2014 |
| Contact name |
José Miguel Simões |
| Organization name |
ISPA - Instituto Universitário
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| Department |
Eco-Ethology Research Unit
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| Lab |
Integrative Behavioural Biology Group
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| Street address |
Rua Jardim do Tabaco 34
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| City |
Lisboa |
| ZIP/Postal code |
1140-041 |
| Country |
Portugal |
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| Platforms (1) |
| GPL6416 |
Hofmann A. burtoni 16K brain_pinky_array_print4 |
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| Samples (43)
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| GSM1315983 |
Post-ovulatory female scent stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 1 |
| GSM1315984 |
Post-ovulatory female scent stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 2 |
| GSM1315985 |
Subordinate male urine stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 1 |
| GSM1315986 |
Subordinate male urine stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 2 |
| GSM1315987 |
Post-ovulatory female scent stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 3 |
| GSM1315988 |
Subordinate male urine stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 3 |
| GSM1315989 |
Dominant male urine stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 1 |
| GSM1315990 |
Subordinate male urine stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 4 |
| GSM1315991 |
Subordinate male urine stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 5 |
| GSM1315992 |
Dominant male urine stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 2 |
| GSM1315993 |
Dominant male urine stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 3 |
| GSM1315994 |
Post-ovulatory female scent stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 4 |
| GSM1315995 |
Pre-ovulatory female scent stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 1 |
| GSM1315996 |
Pre-ovulatory female scent stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 2 |
| GSM1315997 |
Pre-ovulatory female scent stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 3 |
| GSM1315998 |
Post-ovulatory female scent stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 5 |
| GSM1315999 |
Post-ovulatory female scent stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 6 |
| GSM1316000 |
Pre-ovulatory female scent stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 4 |
| GSM1316001 |
Dominant male urine stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 4 |
| GSM1316002 |
Pre-ovulatory female scent stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 5 |
| GSM1316003 |
Dominant male urine stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 5 |
| GSM1316004 |
Pre-ovulatory female scent stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 6 |
| GSM1316005 |
Subordinate male urine stimulation, OB brain tissue, replicate 6 |
| GSM1316006 |
Dominant male urine stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 1 |
| GSM1316007 |
Dominant male urine stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 2 |
| GSM1316008 |
Subordinate male urine stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 1 |
| GSM1316009 |
Post-ovulatory female scent stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 1 |
| GSM1316010 |
Subordinate male urine stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 2 |
| GSM1316011 |
Dominant male urine stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 3 |
| GSM1316012 |
Subordinate male urine stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 3 |
| GSM1316013 |
Dominant male urine stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 4 |
| GSM1316014 |
Dominant male urine stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 5 |
| GSM1316015 |
Pre-ovulatory female scent stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 1 |
| GSM1316016 |
Post-ovulatory female scent stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 2 |
| GSM1316017 |
Subordinate male urine stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 4 |
| GSM1316018 |
Post-ovulatory female scent stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 3 |
| GSM1316019 |
Pre-ovulatory female scent stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 2 |
| GSM1316020 |
Pre-ovulatory female scent stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 3 |
| GSM1316021 |
Post-ovulatory female scent stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 4 |
| GSM1316022 |
Post-ovulatory female scent stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 5 |
| GSM1316023 |
Pre-ovulatory female scent stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 4 |
| GSM1316024 |
Pre-ovulatory female scent stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 5 |
| GSM1316025 |
Pre-ovulatory female scent stimulation, Dp brain tissue, replicate 6 |
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| Relations |
| BioProject |
PRJNA236600 |
| Supplementary file |
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| GSE54468_RAW.tar |
77.2 Mb |
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TAR (of GPR) |
| Processed data included within Sample table |
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