On the ground and in the heights: Does exploratory activity differ in commensal and non-commensal spiny mice?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11130%2F20%3A10417365" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11130/20:10417365 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/20:10417365 RIV/00023752:_____/20:43920395
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=P6w8dk0Iac" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=P6w8dk0Iac</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104252" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104252</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
On the ground and in the heights: Does exploratory activity differ in commensal and non-commensal spiny mice?
Original language description
Human settlements represent a specific environment where commensal animals are exposed to different selective pressures than their wild-living conspecifics. Despite the importance of commensal rodents for human health and economy, little is known about how a transition to a commensal way of life changes the behaviour of the animals. We tested twelve populations of spiny mice (Acomys spp.) in two open field-type tests - a vertical test and a hole board test. In the vertical test, a wire mesh for climbing was offered to spiny mice. We used a multipopulation approach using two commensal and ten non-commensal spiny mouse populations to account for inter-population variability. We aimed to investigate whether there are differences in behaviour of commensal and non-commensal populations with special regard to their exploratory activity both on the ground and on the wire mesh. We found that all non-commensal populations behaved similarly despite their long separate evolutionary histories. Contrary, the commensal populations were less exploratory on the ground in both tests. We concluded that this change was associated with their transition to commensalism. This shows that selective pressures of the commensal environment are able to induce noticeable changes in behaviour after a very short evolutionary time.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Behavioural Processes
ISSN
0376-6357
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
180
Issue of the periodical within the volume
November
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
104252
UT code for WoS article
000581915800014
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85091568157