Publications

Here’s a selection of work we’ve done, giving an overview of our topics:

Jordan A, Taborsky B, Taborsky M. 2020. Cichlids as a model system for studying social behaviour and evolution. In ‘The Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution of cichlid fishes: A Contemporary Modern Synthesis’ Abate and Noakes (eds). Springer Academic.

Goverts Z, Nuehrenberg P, Jordan A. 2021. Environmental reconstruction and tracking as methods to explore social interactions in marine environments: a test case with the Mediterranean Rainbow Wrasse Coris julis. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.695100

Rodriguez-Santiago M, Nuehrenberg P, Derry J, Deussen O, Francisco F, Garrison LK, Garza SF, Hofmann A, Jordan A. 2020. Behavioral traits that define social dominance are the same that reduce social influence in a consensus task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (31) 18566-18573

Kohda M, Hotta T, Takeyama T, Yoshimura N, Jordan A. 2019. If a fish can pass the mark test, what are the implications for consciousness and self-awareness testing in animals? PLOS Biology https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000021 February 7, 2019

Ma B, Bose APH, Dunster B, Zhu B, Lein E, Li, WW, Jordan A. 2025. Social fish have larger brains and greater relative telencephalon sizes: support for the social brain hypothesis from wild, intraspecific comparisons. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 29 October 2025https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1169

Otherwise here are papers by date

Jordan A, Lein E, Ma B, Bose APH. 2025. Societies of the shell-dwelling cichlid Neolamprologus multifasciatus. Animal Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123407

Tomasek M, Dufour V, Jordan A. 2025. An experimental study of social learning in three wild shell-dwelling Tanganyikan cichlids that vary in sociality. International Journal of Comparative Psychology 38

Bose APH, Dunster B, Henshaw J, Koch L, Grimm J, Sefc K, Jordan A. 2025. Habitat differences in resource density and distribution affect ecology and life history of a landscape-modifying fish. Molecular Ecology. 13 October 2025
https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.70145

Lein E, Olofsson R, Klenk H, Dunster B, Schwarz N, Choi N, Carpetis N, Makasa L, Bose APH, Jordan A. 2025. Relative threat modulates the effect of familiarity in territorial encounters among social fish. In review

Bose APH, Nührenberg P, Jordan A, Bakkenes L, Brodin T, Candillier L, Cerveny D, Georgaka TT, Grimm J, Klenk H, Laub EC, Pinter-Wollman N, Sefc K, McCallum ES. 2025. Evolutionary selection weakens under exposure to pharmaceutical pollution In review

Goverts Z, Tomasek M, Jordan A. 2025. A comparison of spatial cognition in wild Tanganyikan cichlids shows support for the range size hypothesis. Animal Cognition. In review

Nührenberg P, Bos APH, Jordan A. 2025. vassi – a Python package for verifiable, automated scoring of social interactions in animal groups. eLife https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.108329.1

Knoepfle M, Jordan A. 2025. Tactile behaviour in a marine producer-scrounger feeding aggregation. Animal Behaviour. In press.

Grätsch S, Dorigo A, Agarwal V, Parker AV, Stemmer M, Hernández Murcia I, Adel A, Jordan A, BaierH. 2025. Cognitive ethology of nest building in a shell-dwelling cichlid. BioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.27.659443

Tomasek M, Soller K, Jordan A. 2025. Wild fish use visual cues to recognize individual divers. Biology Letters. 19 February 2025.

Parker AV, Stemmer M, Graetsch S, Dorigo A, Rodriguez Ramirez O, Adel A, Jordan AL, Baier H. 2025. Intrinsic timing of brood care in shell-dwelling cichlids. Current Biology 15 January 2025

Ma B, Li W, Song Z, Fischer S, Lein E, Jungwirth A, A Jordan. 2025 Multiple within species comparisons show Tanganyikan cichlid fish have larger brains in less structurally complex habitats. bioRxiv 2024.12.06.627222

Ma B, Dunster B, Lein E, Zhu B, Li W, Goverts Z, A Jordan. 2025. Population comparisons reveal more social interactions are correlated with larger brains in the Lake Tanganyikan cichlid Neolamprologus brevis. bioRxiv 2024.12.17.627543

Tomasek M , Soller K, Dufour V Jordan A. 2024. Differences in inhibitory control in two species of Tanganyikan bower-building cichlids contrasting in building flexibility. Ecology and Evolution. 06 June 2024 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11406

Kraus N, Aichem M, Klein K, Lein E, Jordan A, Schreiber F. 2024. TIBA: A web application for the visual analysis of temporal occurrences, interactions, and transitions of animal behavior. PLOS Computational Biology. October 25, 2024

Li W; Zhang D; Zou Q; Bose APH; Jordan A; McCallum ES; Bao J, Duan M. 2024. Behavioural and transgenerational effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) of varying spectral compositions in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Science of the Total Environment. Volume 954, 1 December 2024, 176336 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176336

Bose A, Brodin T, Katongo C, Lwabanya M, Jordan A. 2024. How can we measure resource quality when resources differ in many ways? Deconstructing shelter quality in a social fish. Ecology and Evolution doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70146

Uyehara I, Bechinger T, Jordan A, van Kleunen M. 2024. Plants adjust their leaf nitrogen distribution in response to neighbor-detection and nitrogen limitation. Functional Ecology. 19 June 2024 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14603

Tomasek M , Stark M, Dufour V Jordan A. 2023. Exploration of cognitive flexibility in a Tanganyikan bower-building cichlid, Aulonocranus dewindti. Animal Cognition https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-023-01830-w

Bose APH, Dabernig-Heinz J, Koch L, Grimm J, Sefc KM, Jordan A. 2023. Aggression and spatial positioning of kin and non-kin fish in social groups. Behavioural Ecology arad036 https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arad036

Haluts, A, Jordan A, Gov N. 2023. Modelling animal contests based on spatio-temporal dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society Interface 24 May 2023 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2022.0866

Rößler DC , Kim K, De Agrò M, Jordan A, Galizia CG, Shamble PS. 2022. Regularly occurring bouts of retinal movements suggest a REM sleep-like state in jumping spiders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (33) e2204754119.

With a cool write-up about it here:
Klein BA. A sleeping paradox may extend to the spider. 2022. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (34) e2211216119

Kohda M, Sogawa S, Jordan A, Kubo N, Awata S, Sato S, Kobayashi T, Fujita A, Bshary R. 2022. Further evidence for the capacity for mirror self-recognition in cleaner fish, and the significance of ecologically relevant marks. PLOS Biology February 17, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001529

Rodriguez-Santiago M, Jordan A, Hofmann HA. 2022. Neural activity patterns differ between learning contexts in a social fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 04 May 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0135.

Wegner AM, SUPERFLEX, Jordan A. 2022. Fish Architecture – A framework to create Interspecies Spaces. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of POM Berlin 2021

Bose APH, Dabernig-Heinz J, Koch L, Grimm J, Lang S, Hegedüs B, Banda T, Makasa L, Jordan A, Sefc KM. 2022. Parentage analysis across age cohorts reveals sex differences in reproductive skew in a group-living cichlid fish, Neolamprologus multifasciatus. Molecular Ecology 16 February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16401

Bose APH, Dabernig-Heinz J, Koch L, Grimm J, Sefc KM, Jordan A. 2022. Patterns of sex-biased dispersal are consistent with social and ecological constraints in a group-living cichlid fish. BMC Ecology and Evolution 22, Article number: 21 (2022)

Gall GEC, Pereira TD, Jordan A, Meroz Y. 2022. Fast estimation of plant growth dynamics using deep neural networks Plant Methods 18: 21 (2022)

Haluts A, Garza-Reyes S, Gorbonos D, Jordan A*, Gov N*. 2021. Spatio-temporal dynamics of animal contests are captured by the physical forces experienced by contestants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences December 7, 2021 118 (49) e2106269118 * co-senior authors

Bose APH, Nührenberg P, Jordan A. 2021. Female-female conflict is higher during periods of parental care in a group-living cichlid fish. Animal Behaviour Volume 182, December 2021, Pages 91-105 *Editor’s Choice December 2021

Cakmak E, Plank M, Calovi DS, Jordan A, Keim D. 2021. Spatio-Temporal Clustering Benchmark for Collective Animal Behavior. ACM SIGSPATIAL 2021 November 2021 Pages 5–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3486637.3489487

Bolnick DI, Fox JW, Débarre F, Dietrich EI, Phelps SM, Jordan A. 2021. Editorial expression of concern. The American Naturalist. Volume 198, Number 2

Gübel J, Bose APH, Jordan A. 2021. Social and spatial conflict drive resident aggression towards outsiders in a group-living fish. Behavioral Ecology. arab045, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab045 Published: 25 May 2021

Jungwirth A, Nuehrenberg P, Jordan A. 2021. On the importance of defendable resources for social evolution: applying new techniques to a long-standing question. Ethology. Volume 127, Issue 10. Special Issue: The Evolution of Social Behaviour. October 2021 Pages 872-885

Maguire SM, DeAngelis R, Dijkstra PD, Jordan A, Hofmann HA. 2021. Social network dynamics predict hormone levels and behavior in a highly social cichlid fish. Hormones and Behavior Volume 132, June 2021, 104994

Lein E, Jordan A. 2021. Studying the evolution of social behaviour in Darwin’s Dreampond – a case for the Lamprologine shell cichlids. Hydrobiologia 848, pages 3699–3726 (2021)

Etheredge RI, Schartl M, Jordan A. 2021. Decontextualized learning for interpretable hierarchical representations of visual patterns. Patterns 2(2):100193

Bose A, Windorfer J, Böhm A, Ronco F, Indermaur A, Salzburger W, Jordan A. 2020. Manipulating structural attributes of shelters reveals hidden, open-ended preference functions in a niche-constructing cichlid fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1927)

Zhao J, Wen Y, Zhu S, Ye J, Zhu J, Ye Z, Jordan A. 2020. A novel solution to the trade-off between feeding and predator avoidance: regurgitation and expulsion of ingested food in the face of threat. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20202172

Francisco F, Nührenberg P, Jordan A. 2020. High-resolution, non-invasive animal tracking and reconstruction of local environment in aquatic systems. Movement Ecology 8 (27)

Garkov D, Sommer B, Dullin C, Jordan A, Klein K, Lein E, Schreiber F. 2020. Towards an Immersive Analytics Application for Anatomical Fish Brain Data. ISMB BioVis

Cakmak E, Schaefer H, Buchmuller J, Fuchs J, Schreck T, Jordan A, Keim D. 2020. MotionGlyphs: Visual Abstraction of Spatio-Temporal Networks in Collective Animal Behavior. EuroVis 39 (3)

Earlier publications prior to starting lab

Satoh S, Awata S, Tanaka H, Jordan A, Kakuda N, Hori M, & Kohda M. 2019. Bi-parental mucus provisioning in the scale-eating cichlid Perissodus microlepis (Cichlidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 128(4), 926-935

Jordan LA, Maguire S, Hofmann, HA, Kohda M. 2016. The social and ecological consequences of an ‘over-extended’ phenotype. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283 (1822)

Jordan LA, Ryan MJ. 2015. The sensory ecology of adaptive landscapes. Biology Letters http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.1054

Jordan LA, Kokko H, Kasumovic MM. 2014. Reproductive foragers: Spider males choose mates by selecting among available competitive environments. The American Naturalist 183 (5): 638-649

Kasumovic MM, Jordan LA. 2013. The social factors driving settlement and relocation decisions in a solitary and aggregative spider. The American Naturalist 182 (4): 532-541

Jordan LA, Brooks R. 2012. Recent social history alters male courtship preferences. Evolution 66(1): 280-287

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