Recognition of interspecific familiar versus unfamiliar odours among bank voles and yellow-necked mice

Łopucki, Rafał; Szymroszczyk, Przemysław

doi:10.1007/bf03194156

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“…It has been shown that unfamiliar rodents in their natural habitats tend to avoid each other and, if forced to interact openly, often become aggressive (Lopucki, 2007). Unfamiliar mice, irrespective of their sexes, are attracted by the scent of a conspecific rather than by its presence (Andrzejewski, 2002; Lopucki and Szymroszczyk, 2003). For that reason, scents have been previously employed in the 3ChA test (Ryan et al, 2008) although, more commonly, unfamiliar animals are introduced into the social chamber.…”

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“…This is a fully automated, open-source system based on RFID technology and inspired by the results of ethological field studies in mice (Dell'omo et al, 1998, 2000; Lopucki and Szymroszczyk, 2003; Andrzejewski, 2002; Lewejohann et al, 2004; Lopucki, 2007; Daan et al, 2011; von Merten et al, 2014; Chalfin et al, 2014). Group-housed animals equipped with RFID tags live in a spacious, four-compartment apparatus with shadowed areas and narrow tunnels resembling natural burrows.…”

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Eco-HAB as a fully automated and ecologically relevant assessment of social impairments in mouse models of autism

Puścian

Łęski

Kasprowicz

et al. 2016

eLife

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Eco-HAB is an open source, RFID-based system for automated measurement and analysis of social preference and in-cohort sociability in mice. The system closely follows murine ethology. It requires no contact between a human experimenter and tested animals, overcoming the confounding factors that lead to irreproducible assessment of murine social behavior between laboratories. In Eco-HAB, group-housed animals live in a spacious, four-compartment apparatus with shadowed areas and narrow tunnels, resembling natural burrows. Eco-HAB allows for assessment of the tendency of mice to voluntarily spend time together in ethologically relevant mouse group sizes. Custom-made software for automated tracking, data extraction, and analysis enables quick evaluation of social impairments. The developed protocols and standardized behavioral measures demonstrate high replicability. Unlike classic three-chambered sociability tests, Eco-HAB provides measurements of spontaneous, ecologically relevant social behaviors in group-housed animals. Results are obtained faster, with less manpower, and without confounding factors.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19532.001

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Eco-HAB as a fully automated and ecologically relevant assessment of social impairments in mouse models of autism

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Łęski

Kasprowicz

et al. 2016

eLife

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“…Getting olfactory cues through sniffing other individuals is an important source of information in mice 31 . Thus, to track social interactions that can provide such information we focused on the patterns of following between the animals cohabitating the Eco-HAB, specifically, the manner in which they trail one another through the corridors connecting different parts of the territory.…”

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Social learning about rewards – how information from others helps to adapt to changing environment

Winiarski

Borowska

et al. 2021

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Being a part of a social structure is key for survival and reproduction. Living with conspecifics boosts evolutionary fitness, by providing essential information about the environment. To examine how socially passed olfactory information about the reward affects behavior of individuals we used Eco-HAB, an automated system for tracing voluntary behavior of group-housed mice living under semi-naturalistic conditions. We show that presence of a scent of a rewarded individual has profound effects on social behavior of mice and their ability to find the reward in both familiar and novel environments. As a result, socially-conveyed information has different effects on individual mice. Further, we show that disrupting neuronal plasticity in the prelimbic cortex with nanoparticles gradually releasing TIMP metallopeptidase inhibitor 1, disrupts animals social behavior and results in decreased ability to adapt to environmental changes. The experimental paradigm we developed can be further used to study neuronal mechanisms of social learning.

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“…Animals that could differentiate between various heterospecific species could adjust their behavior to reduce competition and limit their exposure to predators (Lee, Lee, Choe, & Jablonski, ; Łopucki & Szymroszczyk, ; Marzluff, Walls, Cornell, Withey, & Craig, ; Wascher, Szipl, Boeckle, & Wilkinson, ). Prey can increase their survival and display appropriate evasive behaviors by identifying the species of predator that approaches them or their group and then taking actions appropriate to defend themselves from that species of predator (Dielenberg & McGregor, ; Manser, Seyfarth, & Cheney, ; Seyfarth, Cheney, & Marler, ; Slobodchikoff, Kiriazis, Fischer, & Creef, ).…”

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Meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, can discriminate between scents of individual house cats, Felis catus

Rohrer

Ferkin

2019

Ethology

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Individual discrimination provides animals the opportunity to adjust their exposure and behavior when interacting with other animals, both conspecifics and heterospecifics. Meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, were exposed to scents of house cats, Felis catus. Our first experiment tested whether meadow voles could discriminate between caudal, interdigital, and facial scents produced by a cat with a habituation–dishabituation paradigm. Upon exposure to the familiar scent and a novel one, meadow voles did not investigate either scent more than the other. Our second experiment tested whether meadow voles discriminate between the facial scents of different cats. When exposed to a familiar scent of one cat and the unfamiliar scent of another cat, the meadow voles did discriminate and investigated the unfamiliar scent more than the familiar scent. The results suggest that meadow voles will discriminate between cats using any scent that the cat may inadvertently leave within the environment, thereby reducing the vole's risk of predation by that individual.

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Recognition of interspecific familiar versus unfamiliar odours among bank voles and yellow-necked mice

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

Eco-HAB as a fully automated and ecologically relevant assessment of social impairments in mouse models of autism

Eco-HAB as a fully automated and ecologically relevant assessment of social impairments in mouse models of autism

Social learning about rewards – how information from others helps to adapt to changing environment

Meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, can discriminate between scents of individual house cats, Felis catus

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