Commentary – Social Living/Isolation Affects Mite Personality

Personality expression is shaped by the early experienced social context in predatory mites- A commentary on the Schausberger and Nguyen, 2024 paper by Chiara, 2025 As this paper is a commentary on a previous paper, there are no subheadings thus this post will mainly be bullet points The first researcher who may have studied personalityContinue reading “Commentary – Social Living/Isolation Affects Mite Personality”

Early Social Isolation Detrimentally Affects Zebrafish

Developmental Social Isolation affects adult behavior, social interaction, and dopamine metabolite levels in zebrafish – Shams et al. 2017 Introduction Social isolation early in life can have numerous negative impacts in adulthood like altered behavioural, physiological and neural development It is hard to find a subject to use that will not confound the effects ofContinue reading “Early Social Isolation Detrimentally Affects Zebrafish”

Social Living/Isolation Affects Mite Personality

Early social isolation disrupts adult personality expression in group-living mites – Schausberger and Nguyen, 2024 Introduction A critical social condition is whether or not newborns experience conspecifics during their early development If social isolation occurs very early in life, this can have dramatic adverse impacts on behavioural, physiological and other serious implications For example, socialContinue reading “Social Living/Isolation Affects Mite Personality”