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  • Ecology
  • Animal behavior

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  • Pharmaceuticals are global environmental contaminants.
  • These pollutants alter animal behavior, reproduction, and survival.
  • It remains unclear if pollutants reduce individual behavioral variation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of fluoxetine on individual behavioral variation in guppies.
  • To determine if fluoxetine exposure affects variation within or between individuals.

Main Methods:

  • A two-year, multigenerational experiment exposing guppy populations (Poecilia reticulata) to fluoxetine.
  • Repeatedly assaying activity and risk-taking behavior in exposed and unexposed fish.
  • Analyzing the contribution of within- and between-individual variation to overall behavioral changes.

Main Results:

  • Fluoxetine exposure significantly reduced individual variation in activity.
  • Populations exposed to fluoxetine showed less than half the individual variation compared to unexposed populations.
  • Fluoxetine eroded variation between individuals, but not within individuals.

Conclusions:

  • Environmental fluoxetine levels homogenize fish activity, reducing phenotypic variation.
  • This reduction in variation may impair the adaptive potential of fish populations.
  • Pharmaceutical pollution has hidden consequences for individual differences crucial for adaptation.