Social mates dynamically coordinate aggressive behavior to produce strategic territorial defense
Fig 8
Population level solo responses to short drum stimuli.
Population-wide correlations between defense behaviors performed during 10-min defense bout in response to short drum stimuli reveal distinct patterns in how residents organize solo defense. The top row of panels is solo response to Mixed Threat (short/fast) stimuli, the bottom row is solo response to Low Threat (short/slow) stimuli. A) All colored squares indicate significant behavior correlations, where dotted green is a positive correlation and dotted red is a negative correlation. For exact correlation coefficients and p-values see supplement (S1 Table). Starred (*) boxes indicate a behavior pair correlation that is sometimes positive and sometimes negative, depending on the threat context. Grey hatched squares represent non-significant correlations. Strikethrough behavior names indicate the behavior was not performed in that context. B) Solo defense network graphs capture population-level behavioral patterns. All edges (lines) indicate significant, non-random correlations between behaviors (nodes/shapes) where solid green is positive and dashed pink is negative, and line width indicates the strength of the correlation. Solo networks are plotted on eigenvector 1 (x-axis) of the signed Laplacian matrix because they were only clustered on eigenvector 1. Distance between nodes is informative only in the horizontal (x) direction, position in the vertical (y) direction is solely for visualization. Nodes are purple because these represent female and male responders. Nodes are jittered slightly for visualization. C) Motifs of related behaviors determined through spectral clustering of the full network. Each motif is composed of behaviors that are likely to be deployed together during a single territorial defense bout. Arrows represent significant sequential transitions between behaviors, indicating that one behavior is likely to follow another x% of the time. Distance in the motif panel is not informative.