Electric shock for aversion training of jumping spiders: Towards an arachnid model of avoidance learning

Peckmezian, Tina; Taylor, Phillip W.

doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2015.01.015

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“…Interestingly, several studies have proposed that voluntary physical activity in the running wheel is a highly rewarding type of behavior for laboratory rodents [ 46 – 52 ]. Rats demonstrate conditioned place preference to the running wheel associated side [ 53 ], and will bar press to have access to the wheels [ 54 – 57 ].…”

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Both Food Restriction and High-Fat Diet during Gestation Induce Low Birth Weight and Altered Physical Activity in Adult Rat Offspring: The “Similarities in the Inequalities” Model

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We have previously described a theoretical model in humans, called “Similarities in the Inequalities”, in which extremely unequal social backgrounds coexist in a complex scenario promoting similar health outcomes in adulthood. Based on the potential applicability of and to further explore the “similarities in the inequalities” phenomenon, this study used a rat model to investigate the effect of different nutritional backgrounds during gestation on the willingness of offspring to engage in physical activity in adulthood. Sprague-Dawley rats were time mated and randomly allocated to one of three dietary groups: Control (Adlib), receiving standard laboratory chow ad libitum; 50% food restricted (FR), receiving 50% of the ad libitum-fed dam’s habitual intake; or high-fat diet (HF), receiving a diet containing 23% fat. The diets were provided from day 10 of pregnancy until weaning. Within 24 hours of birth, pups were cross-fostered to other dams, forming the following groups: Adlib_Adlib, FR_Adlib, and HF_Adlib. Maternal chow consumption and weight gain, and offspring birth weight, growth, physical activity (one week of free exercise in running wheels), abdominal adiposity and biochemical data were evaluated. Western blot was performed to assess D2 receptors in the dorsal striatum. The “similarities in the inequalities” effect was observed on birth weight (both FR and HF groups were smaller than the Adlib group at birth) and physical activity (both FR_Adlib and HF_Adlib groups were different from the Adlib_Adlib group, with less active males and more active females). Our findings contribute to the view that health inequalities in fetal life may program the health outcomes manifested in offspring adult life (such as altered physical activity and metabolic parameters), probably through different biological mechanisms.

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Both Food Restriction and High-Fat Diet during Gestation Induce Low Birth Weight and Altered Physical Activity in Adult Rat Offspring: The “Similarities in the Inequalities” Model

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“…A consideration of sensory modalities other than vision has since inspired many insightful studies using salticids (e.g. VanderSal & Hebets 2007;Elias et al 2010;Peckmezian & Taylor 2015) and here, in my Festschrift contribution, I consider how draglines influence the behaviour of a salticid.…”

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Discrimination of draglines from potential mates byEvarcha culicivora, an East African jumping spider

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2016

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

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Previous research has shown that Evarcha culicivora, using only olfaction (i.e. airborne volatile compounds), discriminates between opposite-sex and same-sex conspecific individuals and also discriminates between opposite-sex conspecific and heterospecific individuals. However, there has been no evidence to date of E. culicivora also using olfaction alone to discriminate between virgin and previously mated opposite-sex conspecifics. Results from the present study suggest that males of E. culicivora may gain this information from contacting draglines and show a preference for virgin females. Males displayed significantly more often when they contacted the draglines from a virgin female instead of from a previously mated female. Males also escalated conflict with a same-sex rival (their own mirror image) significantly more often when in the presence of draglines from virgin females than when in the presence of draglines from previously mated females. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…We tested Phidippus regius (Koch, 1846), a species belonging to the family of Salticidae that has been successfully tested through a variety of methodologies, such as conditioning (Jakob, Skow, Haberman, & Plourde, 2007;Liedtke & Schneider, 2014;Peckmezian & Taylor, 2015a), using simulated environments (Peckmezian & Taylor, 2015b) and even using neurophysiological recording techniques (Menda, Shamble, Nitzany, Golden, & Hoy, 2014). A previous study (Bednarski, Taylor, & Jakob, 2012) tested the ability of jumping spiders to discriminate between the moving image of a cricket (meaningful) and a moving rectangle (abstract), but the animals seemed unable to learn to discriminate between the two.…”

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Visual Discrimination Learning in the Jumping Spider Phidippus regius

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2017

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Electric shock for aversion training of jumping spiders: Towards an arachnid model of avoidance learning

Cited by 17 publications

References 34 publications

Both Food Restriction and High-Fat Diet during Gestation Induce Low Birth Weight and Altered Physical Activity in Adult Rat Offspring: The “Similarities in the Inequalities” Model

Both Food Restriction and High-Fat Diet during Gestation Induce Low Birth Weight and Altered Physical Activity in Adult Rat Offspring: The “Similarities in the Inequalities” Model

Discrimination of draglines from potential mates byEvarcha culicivora, an East African jumping spider

Visual Discrimination Learning in the Jumping Spider Phidippus regius

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