The Concept of Dominance and the Treatment of Aggression in Multidog Homes: A Comment on van Kerkhove's Commentary

Mertens, Petra A.

doi:10.1207/s15327604jaws0704_8

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“…Personality and dominance rank of the dogs were measured by questionnaires completed by the owner. Because the capacity to form dominance hierarchies is likely to vary from breed to breed [28], we chose a group that contains multiple individuals of the same breed, the Hungarian Vizsla. The studied group is composed of five Vizslas (with two dam-offspring pairs) and one small-sized, mixed-breed dog.…”

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Leadership and Path Characteristics during Walks Are Linked to Dominance Order and Individual Traits in Dogs

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Movement interactions and the underlying social structure in groups have relevance across many social-living species. Collective motion of groups could be based on an “egalitarian” decision system, but in practice it is often influenced by underlying social network structures and by individual characteristics. We investigated whether dominance rank and personality traits are linked to leader and follower roles during joint motion of family dogs. We obtained high-resolution spatio-temporal GPS trajectory data (823,148 data points) from six dogs belonging to the same household and their owner during 14 30–40 min unleashed walks. We identified several features of the dogs' paths (e.g., running speed or distance from the owner) which are characteristic of a given dog. A directional correlation analysis quantifies interactions between pairs of dogs that run loops jointly. We found that dogs play the role of the leader about 50–85% of the time, i.e. the leader and follower roles in a given pair are dynamically interchangable. However, on a longer timescale tendencies to lead differ consistently. The network constructed from these loose leader–follower relations is hierarchical, and the dogs' positions in the network correlates with the age, dominance rank, trainability, controllability, and aggression measures derived from personality questionnaires. We demonstrated the possibility of determining dominance rank and personality traits of an individual based only on its logged movement data. The collective motion of dogs is influenced by underlying social network structures and by characteristics such as personality differences. Our findings could pave the way for automated animal personality and human social interaction measurements.

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Leadership and Path Characteristics during Walks Are Linked to Dominance Order and Individual Traits in Dogs

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“…Avian reoviruses (ARVs) are members of the genus Orthoreovirus, one of the 12 genera composing the family Reoviridae [1]. ARVs are non-enveloped viruses that contain 10 double-stranded RNA genome segments and replicate in the cytoplasm of infected cells.…”

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Avian reovirus triggers autophagy in primary chicken fibroblast cells and Vero cells to promote virus production

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Avian reovirus (ARV) is an important cause of disease in poultry. Although ARV is known to induce apoptosis in infected cells, the interaction between ARV and its target cells requires further elucidation. In this report, we show that the ARV isolate strain GX/2010/1 induces autophagy in both Vero and primary chicken embryonic fibroblast (CEF) cells based on the appearance of an increased number of double-membrane vesicles, the presence of GFP-microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (GFP-LC3) dot formation, and the elevated production of LC3II. We further demonstrate that the class I phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mTOR pathway contributes to autophagic induction by ARV infection. Moreover, treatment of ARV-infected cells with the autophagy inducer rapamycin increased viral yields, while inhibition of the autophagosomal pathway using chloroquine led to a decrease in virus production. Altogether, our studies strongly suggest that autophagy may play a critical role in determining viral yield during ARV infection.

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“…8 If a dog does not display or recognize communication signals properly, its inappropriate actions may lead to an aggressive encounter. 8 If a dog does not display or recognize communication signals properly, its inappropriate actions may lead to an aggressive encounter.…”

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Interdog household aggression: 38 cases (2006–2007)

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The Concept of Dominance and the Treatment of Aggression in Multidog Homes: A Comment on van Kerkhove's Commentary

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Leadership and Path Characteristics during Walks Are Linked to Dominance Order and Individual Traits in Dogs

Leadership and Path Characteristics during Walks Are Linked to Dominance Order and Individual Traits in Dogs

Avian reovirus triggers autophagy in primary chicken fibroblast cells and Vero cells to promote virus production

Interdog household aggression: 38 cases (2006–2007)

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