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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

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10613 - Zoology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • 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

  • 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