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Robert Huber - Publications

Modeling Social Structure

  • Hock K & R Huber. 2009. Models of Winner and Loser Effects: A Cost-Benefit Analysis. Behaviour 146: 69-87 - full text
  • Hock K & R Huber. 2007. Effects of fighting decisions on formation and structure of dominance hierarchies. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 40(2): 153-169 - full text
  • Hock K & R Huber. 2006. Modeling the acquisition of social rank in crayfish: winner and loser effects and self-structuring properties. Behaviour 143: 325-346 - full text
  • Goessmann C, Hemelrijk C & R Huber. 2000. The formation and maintenance of crayfish hierarchies: behavioral and self-structuring properties. Behav. Ecology & Sociobiol. 48: 418-428 - full text

Field Studies

  • Davis K & R Huber. 2007. Activity patterns, behavioural repertoires, and agonistic interactions of crayfish: A non-manipulative field study. Behaviour 144: 229-247 - full text

Drug-sensitive Reward

  • Nathaniel T, Panksepp J & R Huber. (2009). Drug-seeking behavior in an invertebrate system: evidence of morphine-induced reward, extinction and reinstatement in crayfish. Behavioural Brain Research 197 331–338 - full text
  • Panksepp JB & R Huber. 2004. Ethological analyses of crayfish behavior: A new invertebrate system for measuring the rewarding properties of psychostimulants. Behavioural Brain Research 153: 171-180 - full text
  • Panksepp J, Nocjar C, Burgdorf J, Panksepp JB & R Huber. 2004. The role of emotional systems in addiction: A neuroethological perspective. In: Motivational factors in the etiology of drug abuse (Bevins RA & MT Bardo eds.): 85-126. Univ. Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, USA

Neuropharmacology of Aggression

  • Nilsen SP, Chan Y-B, Huber R & EA Kravitz. 2004. Gender-selective patterns of aggressive behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 101 (33): 12342-12347 - full text
  • Chen S, Lee AY, Bowens NM, Huber R & EA Kravitz. 2002. Fighting fruit flies: a model system for the study of aggression. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 99(8): 5664-5668 - full text
  • Panksepp JB & R Huber. 2002. Long-term changes in serotonin function: dynamic neurochemical properties in agonistic behavior of the crayfish Orconectes rusticus. J. Neurobiol. 50(4): 276-290 - full text . Also view the videos of all behavior patterns elicited by psychostimulants in crayfish.
  • Huber R & A Delago. 1998. Serotonin alters decisions to withdraw in fighting crayfish, Astacus astacus: the motivational concept revisited. J. comp. Physiol. A 182 (5): 573-583 - full text
  • Huber R, K Smith, A Delago, K Isaksson & EA Kravitz. 1997. Serotonin and aggressive motivation in crustaceans: altering the decision to retreat. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 94: 5939-5942 - full text

Brain Evolution in Fishes

  • Huber R, MJ van Staaden, LS Kaufman, & K Liem. 1997. Microhabitat use, trophic patterns, and the evolution of brain structure in African cichlids. Brain, Behav. Evol 50: 167-182 - full text
  • van Staaden MJ, R Huber, LS Kaufman, & K Liem. 1995. Brain evolution in cichlids of the African Great Lakes: brain and body size, general patterns and evolutionary trends. ZACS 98: 165-178

Reviews

  • Alcaro A, Huber R & J Panksepp. 2007. Behavioral functions of the mesolimbic dopaminergic system: an affective neuroethological perspective. Brain Research Rev. 56(2): 283-321 - full text
  • Kravitz & R Huber. 2007. Aggression in Invertebrates: The Emergence and Nature of Agonistic Behavioral Patterns (proofs)
  • Huber R. 2005. Amines and motivated behaviours: A simpler systems approach to complex behavioural phenomena. J. comp. Physiol. A 191: 231-239 - full text
  • Kravitz EA & R Huber. 2003. Aggression in invertebrates. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 13(6): 736-743 - full text
  • Panksepp JB, Yue Z, Drerup C & R Huber. 2003. Amine neurochemistry and aggression in crayfish. Microscopy Research & Technique 60: 360-368 - full text
  • Kotrschal K, MJ van Staaden & R Huber. 1998. Fish brains: evolution and functional relationships. Rev. Fish Biology and Fisheries 8: 373-408 - full text

other Publications

  • Huber R., Daws A, Tuttle SB & JB Panksepp 2004 Quantitative behavioral techniques for the study of crustacean aggression in: K Wiese and M Schmidt (eds.): Physiology of the crustacean nervous system. Springer, Berlin
  • Bergman, D.A., Kozlowski, C.P., McIntyre, J.C., Huber R., Daws, A.G., and Moore, P.A. 2003 Temporal dynamics and communication of winner-effects in the crayfish, Orconectes rusticus. Behaviour 140: 805-825 - full text
  • Huber R, Panksepp JB, Yue Z, Delago A & P Moore. 2001. Dynamic interactions of behavior and amine neurochemistry during acquisition and maintenance of social rank in crayfish. Brain, Behav., Evolution 57: 271-282 - full text
  • Schroeder L & R Huber 2001. Fighting strategies in small and large individuals of the crayfish, Orconectes rusticus. Behaviour 138: 1437-1449 - full text
  • Stocker AM & R Huber. 2001. Hunger and presence of a food cue influence aggressive strategies in crayfish, Orconectes rusticus Ethology 107(8): 727-736 - full text
  • Zulandt-Schneider RA, Huber R & PA Moore. 2001 Information transfer in crayfish, Orconectes rusticus, agonistic encounters: the role of urine in communication. Behaviour 138: 137-153 - full text
  • Huber R, M Orzeszyna, N Pokorny & EA Kravitz. 1997. Biogenic amines and aggression: experimental approaches in crustaceans. Brain, Behav., Evol. 50 (suppl. 1): 60-68
  • Benton J, R Huber, M Ruchhoeft, S Helluy & B Beltz. 1997. Serotonin depletion by 5,7-Dihydroxytryptamine alters deutocerebral development in the lobster, Homarus americanus. J. Neurobiol. 33: 357-373 - full text
  • Huber R & EA Kravitz. 1995. A quantitative study of agonistic behavior and dominance in juvenile American lobsters (Homarus americanus). Brain, Behav., Evol. 46: 72-83
  • Huber R & M Martys. 1993. Male - male pairs in greylag geese (Anser anser L.). J. Ornithol. 134: 155-164
  • Huber R & MK Rylander. 1992. Brain morphology and turbidity preference in Notropis and related genera (Cyprinidae, Teleostei). Environm. Biol. Fish. 33: 153-165
  • Huber R & MK Rylander. 1992. Quantitative histological study of the optic nerve in species of minnows (Cyprinidae, Teleostei) inhabiting clear and turbid water. Brain, Behav., Evol. 40: 250-255
  • Huber R & MK Rylander. 1991. Quantitative histological studies of the optic tectum in six species of Notropis and Cyprinella (Cyprinidae, Teleostei). J. Hirnforsch. 32: 309-316
  • Huber R 1988. Sex-specific behavior in greylag geese, Anser anser L. Texas J. Sci. 40: 107-109

Editorials and Commentary

  • Huber R. 2006, Sources & Sinks: Scientific Trajectories and the Austrian Brain Drain. Bridges (invited Open Editorial and Commentary). J. Science and Technology Policy 10: <www.ostina.org/content/view/1176/509/>
  • van Staaden M & R Huber. 2001. Multidisciplinary dissection of behavioral arousal: The role of muscarinic acetylcholine stimulation in grasshopper stridulatory behavior (invited commentary). Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 98(17): 9468-9470 - full text
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