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Social status and social behavior can alter the function of the nervous system within crayfish. This research details the experiments that show that dominant and subordinate crayfish can express different serotonin receptors in the nervous system as well as modulate the sensitivity of those receptors expressed.
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Neuroethology is the study of the neural basis of behavior, and one of the assumptions of the field includes a concept that behavior arises from the underlying neural architecture of the organism’s central nervous system. Several studies have supported the concept that changes in the nervous system, either during development or via changes in neurotransmitter function, as a result of experiences, alters the types of behaviors demonstrated by the organism. For many years, this concept was considered a one-way process whereby the neurobiology influenced behavior. However, the classic studies by Don Edwards and his...
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Moore, P. (2016). Baringa’s (1996) Crayfish. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2527-1
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