Impact of animal aggression and dominance on neurobiology
and stress
Date: 3 July 2014
Venue: Manchester, UK
Organised by: Peter Hubbard and Lynne Sneddon
Abstract submission and registration information:
Confirmed Speakers: Rui F. Oliveira (ISPA), Svante
Winberg (Uppsala University), Katharina Hirschenhauser (University of Vienna),
Michael Taborsky (Universität Bern), Oyvind Overli (Norwegian University of
Life Sciences (UMB)), Erik Hoglund (Technical University of Denmark)
Description:
Animals use aggression to obtain valuable resources,
defend territories and maintain their dominance status within a hierarchy.
Position or rank affects access to food and mates and the dominant or winner of
contests is in the best physiological condition. This influences their
metabolic rate, stress responsiveness and the manner in which their
neurophysiological systems function. These wide reaching consequences,
therefore, influence any behavioural and physiological responses to subsequent
challenges and results in high individual variation within group held animals.
This session shall address the proximate causes and ultimate functions of
animal aggression and tease apart the link between social status and stress
coping style. Many researchers are investigating the relationship between
physiological phenotype and behavioural performance, therefore, this
integrative session shall combine the fields of animal behaviour, endocrinology
and neurobiology.
Please contact Peter (phubbard@ualg.pt)
or Lynne (lsneddon@liverpool.ac.uk)
if you are interested in presenting at this meeting.
Other symposia on animal fitness, performance,
conservation and stress run 1-4th July: http://www.sebiology.org/meetings/Manchester/animal.html