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Tommaso Ruberto

School of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Faculty of Science

PhD project title: An integrative approach to understanding conflict management in a highly social vertebrate.

Primary aims of the projects: Within the course of my PhD, I am performing experiments to understand the behavioural, developmental, and neurophysiological underpinnings of sociality in the cooperatively breeding Daffodil cichlids, Neolamprologus pulcher. Specifically, my PhD project is investigating the phenotypic expression of conflict management behaviours in N. pulcher, the role of vasotocin in modulating those behaviours, and the importance of early life experiences in organising adult social behaviour and its neurohormonal substrates.

Supervisors: Dr. Adam Reddon, Dr. Will Swaney, and Dr. Hazel Nichols.

Languages

Italian
English

Degrees

2013, University of Genova, Italy, M.Sc. Biological Monitoring
2010, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, B.Sc. Biology

Journal article

Ruberto T, Swaney WT, Reddon AR. 2024. Submissive behavior is affected by territory structure in a social fish Jia Z-Y, Huang Z-S. Current Zoology, :1-7 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Manara V, Ruberto T, Swaney WT, Reddon AR. 2022. Subordinate submissive responses are predicted by dominant behaviour in a cooperatively breeding fish Behaviour, :1-18 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Reddon AR, Ruberto T, Reader SM. 2021. Submission signals in animal groups Behaviour, 159 :1-20 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Ruberto T, Talbot JL, Reddon AR. 2020. Head up displays are a submission signal in the group-living daffodil cichlid. Behavioural Processes, 181 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Neri D, Ruberto TF, Mwaffo V, Bartolini T, Porfiri M. 2019. Social environment modulates anxiogenic effects of caffeine in zebrafish Behavioural Pharmacology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Ruberto TF, Clément R, Spinello C, Neri D, Macrì S, Porfiri M. 2018. The Tagging Procedure of Visible Implant Elastomers Influences Zebrafish Individual and Social Behavior Zebrafish, 15 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Kim C, Ruberto T, Phamduy P, Porfiri M. 2018. Closed-loop control of zebrafish behaviour in three dimensions using a robotic stimulus. Scientific reports, 8 :657 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Neri D, Ruberto T, Cord-Cruz G, Porfiri M. 2017. Information theory and robotics meet to study predator-prey interactions. Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.), 27 :073111 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Macrì S, Neri D, Ruberto T, Mwaffo V, Butail S, Porfiri M. 2017. Three-dimensional scoring of zebrafish behavior unveils biological phenomena hidden by two-dimensional analyses. Scientific reports, 7 :1962 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Ruberto T, Polverino G, Porfiri M. 2017. How different is a 3D-printed replica from a conspecific in the eyes of a zebrafish? Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 107 :279-293 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Ruberto T, Mwaffo V, Singh S, Neri D, Porfiri M. 2016. Zebrafish response to a robotic replica in three dimensions. Royal Society open science, 3 :160505 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Polverino G, Ruberto T, Staaks G, Mehner T. 2016. Tank size alters mean behaviours and individual rank orders in personality traits of fish depending on their life stage Animal Behaviour, 115 :127-135 DOI Publisher Url

Thesis/Dissertation

Ruberto T. 2024. An integrative approach to understanding conflict management in a highly social vertebrate Reddon A, Swaney W, Nichols H. Public Url

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