Alcohol Impairs Predation Risk Response and Communication in Zebrafish

Overview

Journal PLoS One

Specialties General Medicine
Science

Date 2013 Oct 12

PMID 24116073

Citations 16

Authors

Thiago Acosta Oliveira

Gessi Koakoski

Luiz Carlos Kreutz

Daiane Ferreira

Joao Gabriel Santos da Rosa

Murilo Sander de Abreu

Ana Cristina Vendrametto Giacomini

Ricardo Pimentel Oliveira

Michele Fagundes

Angelo Luis Piato

Rodrigo Egydio Barreto

Leonardo Jose Gil Barcellos

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Abstract

The effects of ethanol exposure on Danio rerio have been studied from the perspectives of developmental biology and behavior. However, little is known about the effects of ethanol on the prey-predator relationship and chemical communication of predation risk. Here, we showed that visual contact with a predator triggers stress axis activation in zebrafish. We also observed a typical stress response in zebrafish receiving water from these conspecifics, indicating that these fish chemically communicate predation risk. Our work is the first to demonstrate how alcohol effects this prey-predator interaction. We showed for the first time that alcohol exposure completely blocks stress axis activation in both fish seeing the predator and in fish that come in indirect contact with a predator by receiving water from these conspecifics. Together with other research results and with the translational relevance of this fish species, our data points to zebrafish as a promising animal model to study human alcoholism.

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