In nature, the Goby fish lives in symbiosis with the burrowing shrimp; serving as a watchman in return for a place to live. Current adaptive learning systems hold an ambiguous position that attempts to compensate for real-world interaction. This paper presents a novel symbiotic-dialog approach to abstract cognitive skill training. The approach is implemented within Goby, a third-party symbiotic...

Citation: Samson E, Hirsch PE, Palmer SCF, Behrens JW, Brodin T and Travis JMJ (2017) Early Engagement of Stakeholders with Individual-Based Modeling Can Inform Research for Improving Invasive Species Management: The Round Goby as a Case Study. Front. Ecol. Evol. 5:149. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00149 Early Engagement of Stakeholders with Individual-Based Modeling Can Inform Research for Improving...

Cet article examine les variations de la blanchité des figures masculines telles qu’elles sont représentées dans le cinéma hollywoodien années 1950 et 1960 films centrés autour figure du redneck sudiste. Alors que mouvement américain pour droits civiques s’est amplifié largement médiatisé au sortir Seconde guerre mondiale, tensions raciales s’expriment à l’écran sous forme d’une mise ban rednec...

Concentration and electrophoretic properties of blood serum albumin of the round goby Neogobius melanostomus caught in Black Sea and Azov Sea were studied in relation to age, sex, maturation stage and season. Electrophoretic mobility of serum albumin in Black Sea fish increased with age, while in Azov Sea goby it varied less. No differences were observed in albumin characteristics between femal...

Invasive round goby Neogobius melanostomus and bighead goby Ponticola kessleri have successfully colonized freshwater and coastal habitats worldwide. The objective was to use stable isotope analyses to study the foraging and movement of both species at small spatial scales in the Upper Danube River, considering 861 samples from two different years, seasons and sides of the river in an area wher...

The effects of oestrogenic exposure upon exposure indicators and reproductive success in a marine fish were investigated using a series of short and long-term exposures of the sand goby (Pomatoschistus minutus) to oestrogenic materials. A 140 bp cDNA probe for sand goby vitellogenin (VTG) was used to measure hepatic VTG mRNA expression. Effects on other novel and “classical” biomarkers of oestr...

Invasions by alien species may cause a decline in populations of vulnerable protected species through interference and resource competition. During the last decade, four invasive goby species of Ponto-Caspian origin have displayed rapid dispersal in The Netherlands. High densities of these species have been recorded in large rivers and hydrologically connected water bodies such as canals and fl...

Cause-and-effect interpretations of the apparent impacts of biological invasions are confounded by the coincident occurrence of non-native species and changes to abiotic factors. Native community structure and function can vary greatly in space and time, owing to abiotic variables that could potentially be affected by non-native species. Here, we sought to determine the relative importance of a...

The Ponto-Caspian round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) was introduced to the Gulf of Gdańsk, southern Baltic Sea, in the late 1980s, and it has now become the dominant demersal fish species in shallow water. This study aimed to assess diet preferences and the degree of diet overlap between the round goby and the native flounder (Platichthys flesus). Results from time-series of stomach contents a...

An invasive benthivorous fish, the Eurasian round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) is abundant throughout the lower Great Lakes – St. Lawrence River system. We examined the round goby’s potential to alter benthic communities on cobble substrates in the upper St. Lawrence River. During the summers of 2008 and 2009, macroinvertebrates and benthic algae were sampled across sites with varying goby den...