Alex L. Jordan

The paper compares brain transcriptomes of social and solitary cichlid fishes to explore shared genetic mechanisms underlying social behavior evolution and plasticity.

The paper investigates nest-building behavior in cichlids, finding it involves innate templates and flexible schema with neural correlates in hippocampus-like regions.

The paper tests social learning in three Tanganyikan cichlid species with varying sociality, finding limited learning and no evidence of color-based social learning.

The paper introduces vassi, a Python package for automated scoring of social interactions in animal groups, demonstrating its effectiveness on both benchmark and naturalistic datasets.

Brainacle enables interactive delineation and quantification of anatomical structures in 3D data using virtual reality, validated on brain regions of African cichlid fish.

This study compares decision-making strategies of two cichlid fish species under varying perceptual loads, finding divergence when attribute complexity increases.

This study shows that maternal and larval clocks independently control the timing of larval emergence in shell-dwelling cichlids, with each clock able to override the other under experimental conditions.

The study compares two populations of Neolamprologus brevis cichlids, finding that higher social interaction frequency correlates with larger brain size and specific neuroanatomical changes.

This study compares brain size and architecture across ten cichlid species in different habitat complexities, finding larger brains in less complex habitats, challenging the Clever Foraging Hypothesis.

The paper shows that social context affects learning speed and neural activity patterns in cichlid fish during a visual discrimination task.