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Divergent evolutionary pathways for aggression and territoriality in Astyanax cavefish

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The surface morph of the Mexican tetra fish ( Astyanax mexicanus ) exhibits strong territoriality behavior and high levels of aggression. In contrast, the eyeless cave-adapted morph from Sierra de El Abra, México, rarely are aggressive and have totally lost the territorial behavior. These behaviors are part of what has been called the cavefish behavioral syndrome. Here, we report that several Astyanax cave populations of Sierra de Guatemala, unlike those reported for the Sierra de El Abra cave populations, display significant territoriality and aggression when confined into a reduced space. We discuss divergent evolutionary trajectories in terms of agonistic behavior for cavefish populations inhabiting different mountain ranges.
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Luis Espinasa, Emily Collins, C. Patricia Ornelas García, Sylvie Rétaux, Nicolas Rohner, et al.. Divergent evolutionary pathways for aggression and territoriality in Astyanax cavefish. Subterranean Biology, 2022, 43, pp.169-183. ⟨10.3897/subtbiol.73.79318⟩. ⟨hal-04279228⟩
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