UT Fish Behavior

Fishing at BFL!

We are so proud of all of our members for doing such a great job representing us last weekend at the Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium! And a very special congratulations to our very own Nidhi Kuchimanchi for winning in her category.

We are so excited to share with you that our new Fish Behavior Stream paper “Isotocin increases female avoidance of males in a coercive mating system: Assessing the social salience hypothesis of oxytocin in a fish species” was just published in the Journal Hormones and Behavior.

This research was conducted by undergraduate researcher and former FRI student Dustin Fry, who after getting his masters at Columbia in epidemiology is now pursuing a PhD at Drexel University.

Check it out here:

Isotocin increases female avoidance of males in a coercive mating system: Assessing the social salience hypothesis of oxytocin in a fish species The nonapeptide oxytocin (and its fish homolog isotocin (IT)) is an evolutionarily-conserved hormone associated with social behaviors across most vert…

New round of FRI students learning how to measure fish.

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Just some behind the scene photos from the past semester. PAT 420, you will be missed!