The nose knows: Chemically mediated antipredator defences in ostariophysans

Fish Defenses: Volume 2: Pathogens, Parasites and Predators

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 291-321

  Mirza, Reehan S ^a  

^a NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881126271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (98)

1. Acquistaplace, E, B.A. Hazlett and F. Gherardi. 2003. Unsuccessful predation and learning of predator cues by crayfish. Journal of Crustacean Biology 23: 364-370.
2. Adler, F.R. and C.D. Harvell. 1990. Inducible defenses, phenotypic variability and biotic environments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 5: 407-410.
3. Bradbury, J.W. and S.L. Vehrencamp. 1998. Principles of Animal Communication. Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
4. Bronmark, C. and J.G. Miner. 1992. Predator-induced phenotypical change in body morphology in crucian carp. Science 258: 1348-1350.
5. Bronmark, C. and L.B. Pettersson. 1994. Chemical cues from piscivores induce a change in morphology in crucian carp. Oikos 70: 396-402.
6. Brown, G.E. and D.R Chivers. 2005. Learning as an adaptive response to predation. In: Ecology and Evolution of Predator/Prey Interactions, P Barbosa and I. Castellanos (eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 34-54
7. Brown, W.L., Jr., T. Eisner and R.H. Whittaker. 1970. Allomones and kairomones: Transspecific chemical messengers. BioScience 20: 21-22.
8. Brown, G.E., D.P Chivers and R.J.F. Smith. 1995. Localized defecation by pike: A response to labelling by cyprinid alarm pheromone? Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 36: 105-110.
9. Brown, G.E., D.P Chivers and R.J.F. Smith. 1997. Differential learning rates of chemical versus visual cues of a northern pike by fathead minnows in a natural habitat. Environmental Biology of Fishes 49: 89-96.
10. Brown, G.E., J.C. Adrian, E. Smyth, H. Leet and S. Brennan. 2000. Ostariophysan alarm pheromones: Laboratory and field tests of the functional significance of nitrogenoxides. Journal of Chemical Ecology 26: 139-154.
11. Cashner, M. 2004. Are spotted basss (Micropterus punctulatus) attracted to Schreckstoff? A test of the predator attraction hypothesis. Copeia 2004: 592-598.
12. Chapman, G.B. and E.G. Johnson. 1997. An electron microscope study of intrusions into alarm substance cells of the channel catfish. Journal of Fish Biology 51: 503-514.
13. Chivers, D.P and R.J.F. Smith. 1994a. The role of experience and chemical alarm signalling in predator recognition by fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas. Journal of Fish Biology 44: 273-285.
14. t acquire predator recognition when alarm substance is associated with the sight of unfamiliar fish. Animal Behaviour 48: 597-605.
15. Chivers, D.P and R.J.F. Smith. 1995a. Fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas, learn to recognize chemical stimuli from high risk habitats by the presence of alarm substance. Behavioural Ecology 6: 155-158.
16. Chivers, D.R and R.J.F. Smith. 1995b. Chemical recognition of risky habitats is culturally transmitted among fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas (Osteichthyes, Cyprinidae). Ethology 99: 286-296.
17. Chivers, D.P and R.J.F. Smith. 1995c. Free-living fathead minnows rapidly learn to recognize pike as predators. Journal of Fish Biobgy 46: 949-954.
18. Chivers, D.P and R.J.F. Smith. 1998. Chemical alarm signalling in aquatic predator-prey systems: A review and prospectus. Ecoscience 5: 338-352.
19. Chivers, D.R and R.S. Mirza. 2001. Predator diet cues and the assessment of predation risk by aquatic vertebrates: A review and prospectus. In: Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, A. Marchlewska-Koj,. Lepri and D. Müller-Schwarze (eds.). Plenum Press, New York, Vol. 9, pp. 277-284.
20. Chivers, D.P., G.E. Brown and R.J.F. Smith. 1996. Evolution of chemical alarm signals: Attracting predators benefits alarm signal senders. American Naturalist 148: 649-659.
21. Chivers, D.R, R.S. Mirza and J. Johnston. 2002. Learned recognition of heterospecific alarm cues enhances survival during encounters with predators. Behaviour 139: 929-938.
22. Chivers, D.P, B.D. Wisenden, C.J. Flindman, T.A. Michalak, R.C. Kusch, S.G.W. Kaminskyj, K.L. Jack, M.C.O. Ferrari, R.J. Pollock, C.F. Halbgewachs, M.S. Pollock, S. Alemadi, C.T. James, R.K. Savaloja, C.P Goater, A. Corwin, R.S. Mirza, J.M. Kiesecker, G.E. Brown, J.C. Adrian Jr., PH. Krone, A.R. Blaustein and A. Mathis. 2007. Epidermal ‘alarm substance’ cells of fishes are maintained by non-alarm functions: Possible defence against pathogens, parasites and UVB radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274: 2611-1619.
23. Danchin, E., L.-A. Giraldeau, T.J. Valone and R.H. Wagner. 2004. Public information: From nosy neighbors to cultural evolution. Science 305: 487-491.
24. Darwish, T.L., R.S. Mirza, A.O.H.C. Leduc and G.E. Brown. 2005. Acquired recognition of novel predator odour cocktails by juvenile glowlight tetras. Animal Behaviour 70: 83-89.
25. Dupuch, A., P. Magnan and L.M. Dill. 2004- Sensitivity of northern redbelly dace, Phoxinus eos, to chemical alarm cues. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82: 407-415.
26. Ferrari, M.C.O. and D.P Chivers. 2006. The role of latent inhibition in acquired predator recognition by fathead minnows. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84: 505-509.
27. Ferrari, M.C.O., F. Messier and D.P Chivers. 2006a. The nose knows: Minnows determine predator proximity and density through detection of predator odours. Animal Behaviour 72: 927-932.
28. Ferrari, M.C.O., T Kapitania-Kwok and D.P Chivers. 2006b. The role of learning in the development of threat-sensitive predator avoidance: the use of predator cue concentration by fathead minnows. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 60: 522-527.
29. Ferrari, M.C.O., J.J. Trowell, G.E. Brown and D.R Chivers. 2005. The role of leaning in the development of threat-sensitive predator avoidance in fathead minnows. Animal Behaviour 70: 777-784.
30. Friesen, R.G. and D.R Chivers. 2006. Underwater video reveals strong avoidance of alarm cues by prey fishes. Ethology 112: 339-345.
31. Frisch, K. von. 1938. Zur Psychologie des Fisch-Schwarmes. Naturwissenschaften 26: 601-606.
32. Frisch, K. von. 1941. Uber einen Schreckstoff der Fischhaut und seine biologische Bedeutung. Zeitschrift Vergleichende Physiologie 29: 46-149.
33. Göz, H. 1941. Uber den Art-und Individualgeruch bei Fischen. Zeitschrift Vergleichende Physiologie 29: 1-45.
34. Hall, D. and M.D. Suboski. 1995. Sensory preconditioning and second-order conditioning of alarm reactions in zebra danio fish (Brachydanio rerio). Journal of Comparative Psychology 109: 76-84.
35. Hara, T.J. 1994. The diversity of chemical stimulation in fish olfaction and gustation. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 4: 1-35.
36. Harvell, C.D. 1990. The ecology and evolution of inducible defenses. Quarterly Review of Biology 65: 323-340.
37. Havel, J.E. 1987. Predator-induced defenses: A review. In: Predation: Direct and Indirect Impacts on Aquatic Communities, W.C. Kerfoot and A. Sih (eds.). University Press of New England: Hanover, pp. 263-278.
38. Hazlett, B.-A. 1985. Disturbance pheromones in the crayfish, Orconectes virilis. Journal of Chemical Ecology 11:1695-1711.
39. Hazlett, B.A. 1989. Additional sources of disturbance pheromone affecting the crayfish Orconectes virilis. Journal of Chemical Ecology 15: 381-385.
40. Hazlett, B.A. 2003. Predator recognition and learned irrelevance in the crayfish Orconectes virilis. Ethology 109: 765-780.
41. Helfman, G.S. 1989. Threat-sensitive predator avoidance in damselfish-trumpetfish interactions. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 24: 47-58.
42. Hugie, D.M. 1990. An Intraspecific Approach to the Evolution of Chemical Alarm Signaling in the Ostariophysi. M.Sc. Thesis. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
43. Jachner, A. 1997. The response of bleak to predator odour of unfed and recently fed pike. Journal of Fish Biobgy 50: 878-886.
44. Johnstone, R.A. 1997. The evolution of animal signals. In: Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach, J.R. Krebs and N.B. Davies (eds.). Blackwell Science, London, pp. 155-178.
45. Jordao, L.C. and G.L. Volpato. 2000. Chemical transfer of warning information in noninjured fish. Behaviour 137: 681-690.
46. Kats, L.B. and L.M. Dill. 1998. The scent of death: Chemosensory assessment of predation risk by prey animals. Ecoscience 5: 361-394.
47. Kiesecker, J.M., D.P. Chivers, A. Marco, C. Quilchano, M.T. Anderson and A.R. Blaustein. 1999. Identification of a disturbance signal in larval red-legged frogs (Rana aurora). Animal Behaviour 57: 1295-1300.
48. Kleerekoper, H.A. 1969. Olfaction in Fishes. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
49. Krause, J. 1993. Transmission of fright reaction between different species of fish. Behaviour 111: 37-48.
50. Kusch, R.C. and D.P Chivers. 2004. The effects of crayfish predation on phenotypic and life history variation in fathead minnows. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82: 917-921.
51. Kusch, R.C., R.S. Mirza and D.P Chivers. 2004. Making sense of predator scents: Investigating the sophistication of predator assessment abilities of fathead minnows. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 55: 551-555.
52. Lawrence, B.J. and R.J.F. Smith. 1989. Behavioural response of solitary fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas, to alarm substance. Journal of Chemical Ecology 15: 209-219.
53. Lima, S.L. 1998. Stress and decision-making under the risk of predation: Recent developments from behavioral, reproductive and ecological perspectives. Advances in Study of Behaviour 27: 215-290.
54. Lima, S.L. and L.M. Dill. 1990. Behavioural decisions made under the risk of predation: A review and prospectus. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68: 619-640.
55. Lima, S.L. and EA. Bednekoff. 1999. Temporal variation in danger drives antipredator behavior: The predation risk allocation hypothesis. American Naturalist 153: 649-659.
56. Magurran, A.E. 1989. Acquired recognition of predator odour in the European minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus. Ethology 82: 216-223.
57. Magurran, A.E. and A. Higham. 1988. Information transfer across fish shoals under predator threat. Ethology 78: 153-158.
58. Magurran, A.E., RW. Irving and EA. Henderson. 1996. Is there a fish alarm pheromone? A wild study and critique. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 263: 1551-1556.
59. Mathis, A. and R.J.F. Smith. 1992. Avoidance of area marked with a chemical alarm substance by fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) in a natural habitat. Canadian Journal of Zoology 70:1473-1476.
60. Mathis, A. and R.J.F. Smith. 1993a. Chemical alarm signals increase the survival time of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) during encounters with northern pike (Esox lucius). Behavioural Ecology 4: 260-265.
61. Mathis, A. and R.J.F. Smith. 1993b. Fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas, learn to recognize northern pike, Esox lucius, as predators on the basis of chemical stimuli from minnows in the pike’s diet. Animal Behaviour 46: 645-656.
62. Mathis, A. and R.J.F. Smith. 1993c. Chemical labelling of northern pike (Esox lucius) by the alarm pheromone of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas). Journal of Chemical Ecology 19: 1967-1979.
63. Mathis, A. and R.J.F. Smith. 1993d. Intraspecific and Cross-Superorder responses to chemical alarm signals by brook stickleback. Ecology 74: 2395-2404.
64. Mathis, A., D.E Chivers and R.J.F. Smith. 1995. Chemical alarm signals: Predator-deterrents or predator attractants? American Naturalist 146: 994-1005.
65. Mathis, A., D.E Chivers and R.J.F. Smith. 1996. Cultural transmission of predator recognition in fishes: Intraspecific and interspecific learning. Animal Behaviour 51: 185-201.
66. Mirza, R.S. and D.E Chivers. 2001a. Do chemical alarm signals enhance survival of aquatic vertebrates? An analysis of the current research paradigm. In: Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, A. Marchlewska-Koj, J.J. Lepri and D. Muller-Schwarze (eds.). Elenum Eress, New York, Voi. 9, pp. 19-26.
67. Mirza, R.S. and D.E Chivers. 2001b. Learned recognition of heterospecific alarm signals: The importance of a mixed predator diet. Ethology 107: 1007-1018.
68. Mirza, R.S. and D.E Chivers. 2002. Behavioural responses to conspecific disturbance chemicals enhance survival of juvenile brook charr, Salvelinus fontinalis, during encounters with predators. Behaviour 139: 1099-1109.
69. Mirza, R.S. and D.E Chivers. 2003. Fathead minnows learn to recognize heterospecific alarm cues they detect in the diet of a known predator. Behaviour 140: 1359-1370.
70. Nelson, J.S. 1994. Fishes of the World. Third Edition. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
71. Newsome, G.E. 1975. A Study of Prey Preference and Selection by Creek Chub, Semotilus atromaculatus, in the Mink River, Manitoba. EhD. Thesis. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
72. Nilsson, RA., C. Brönmark and L.C. Pettersson. 1995. Benefits of a predator-induced morphology in crucian carp. Oecologia 104: 291-296.
73. Pfeiffer, W. 1977. The distribution of fright reaction and alarm substance cells in fishes. Copeia 1977: 653-665.
74. Pfeiffer, W., G. Reiglbauer, G. Meir and B. Scheibler. 1985. Effect of hypoxanthine-3(N)-oxide and hypoxanthine-1 (N)-oxide on central nervous excitation of the black tetra Gymnocorymbus temetzi (Characidae, Ostariophysi, Pisces) indicated by dorsal light response. Journal of Chemical Ecology 11: 507-524.
75. Schutz, E 1956. Vergleichende Untersuchungen über die Schrekreaktion bei Fischen und deren Verbreitung. Zeitschrift Vergleichende Physiologie 38: 84-135.
76. Seyfarth, R.M. and D.L. Cheney. 2003. Signalers and receivers in animal communication. Annual Reviews in Psychology 54: 145-175.
77. Sih, A. 1987. Predator and prey lifestyles: An evolutionary and ecological overview. In: Predation: Direct and Indirect Impacts on Aquatic Communities, W.C. Kerfootand and A. Sih (eds.). University Press of New England, Hanover, pp. 203-224.
78. Sih, A. 2000. New insights on how temporal variation in predation risk shapes prey behavior. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 3-4.
79. Smith, R.J.F. 1973. Testosterone eliminates alarm substance in male fathead minnows. Canadian Journal of Zoology 51: 875-876.
80. Smith, R.J.F. 1976. Male fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas Rafinesque) retain their fright reaction to alarm substance during the breeding season. Canadian Journal of Zoology 54: 2230-2231.
81. Smith, R.J.F. 1977. Chemical communication as adaptation: Alarm substance of fish. In: Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, D. Müller-Schwarze and M.M. Mozell (eds.). Plenum, New York, pp. 303-320.
82. Smith, R.J.F. 1992. Alarm signals in fishes, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 2: 33-63.
83. Smith, R.J.F. 1997. Does one result trump all others? A response to Magurran, Irving and Henderson. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B264: 445-450.
84. Stabeil, O.B. and M.S. Lwin. 1997. Predator-induced phenotypic changes in crucian carp are caused by chemical signals from conspecifics. Environmental Biology of Fishes, pp. 139-144.
85. Suboski, M.D. 1990. Releaser-induced recognition learning. Psychological Reviews 97: 271-284.
86. Tollrian, R. and C.D. Harvell. 1999. The evolution of inducible defenses: Current ideas. In: The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses, R. Tollrian and C.D. Harvell (eds.). Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, pp. 303-321.
87. Verheijen, F.J. 1956. Transmission of a fright reaction amongst a school of fish and the underlying sensory mechanisms. Experientia 12: 202-204.
88. Wisenden, B.D. 2000. Scents* of danger: The evolution of olfactory ornamentation in chemically-mediated predator-prey interactions. In: Animal Signals: Signalling and Signal Design in Animal Communication, Y. Espmark, T. Amundsen and G. Rosenqvist (eds.). Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 365-386.
89. Wisenden, B.D. 2003. Chemically mediated strategies to counter predation. In: Sensory Processing in the Aquatic Environment, S.P Collin and N.J. Marshall (eds.). SpringerVerlag, New York, pp. 236-251.
90. Wisenden, B.D. and R.J.F. Smith. 1997. The effect of physical condition and shoal-mate familiarity on proliferation of alarm substance cells in the epidermis of fathead minnows. Journal of Fish Biology 50: 799-808.
91. Wisenden, B.D. and R.J.F. Smith. 1998. A re-evaluation of the effect of shoalmate familiarity on the proliferation of alarm substance cells in fathead minnows. Journal of Fish Biology 53: 841-846.
92. Wisenden, B.D. and T.A. Thiel. 2002. Field verification of predator attraction to minnow alarm substance. Journal of Chemical Ecology 28: 433-438.
93. Wisenden, B.D. and D.R Chivers. 2006. The role of public chemical information in antipredator behaviour. In: Communication in Fishes, F. Ladich, S.R Collins, R Moller and B.G. Kapoor (eds.). Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA, Vol. 1, pp. 259-278.
94. Wisenden, B.D., D.R Chivers, G.E. Brown and R.J.F. Smith. 1995a. The role of experience in risk assessment: Avoidance of areas chemically labelled with fathead minnow alarm pheromone by conspecifics and heterospecifics. Ecoscience 2: 116-122.
95. Wisenden, B.D., D.R Chivers and R.J.F. Smith. 1995b. Early warning of risk in the predation sequence: A disturbance pheromone in Iowa darters (Etheostoma exile). Journal of Chemical Ecology 21: 1469-1480.
96. Wisenden, B.D., K.A. Vollbrecht and J.L. Brown. 2004. Is there a fish alarm cue? Affirming evidence from a wild study. Animal Behaviour 67: 59-67.
97. Yunker, W.K., D.E. Wein and B.D. Wisenden. 1999. Conditioned alarm behavior in fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) resulting from association of chemical alarm pheromone with a nonbiological visual stimulus. Journal of Chemical Ecology 25: 2677-2686.
98. Zhao, X. and D.R Chivers. 2005. Response of juvenile goldfish (Carassius auratus) to chemical alarm cues: Relationship between response intensity, response duration and the level of predation risk. In: Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, R.T. Mason, M. LeMaster and D. Miiller-Schwarze (eds.). Plenum Press, New York, Vol. 10, pp. 334-341.