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Angelo Bisazza
Papers on international journals
BISAZZA A. 1978. Development of aggressive behaviour in the mouse (Mus musculus): effect of
different environmental conditions. Boll. Zool., 45, 353-357.
BISAZZA A. 1979. A comparison of aggressive behaviour in isolated and dominant male mice. Boll.
Zool., 46, 63-66.
BISAZZA A. 1980. Sound communication between male and female mice: preliminary report. Boll.
Zool., 47, 125-127.
BISAZZA A. 1981. Social organization and territorial behaviour in three strains of mice. Boll. Zool., 48,
157-167.
BISAZZA A. 1982. Hereditary differences in social behaviour of male mice (Mus musculus L.). Boll.
Zool., 49, 207-211.
APPLEBY M.C., MCRAE H.E., DUNCAN I.J.C & BISAZZA A. 1984. Choice of social condition by
layng hens. Brit. Poultry Sci., 25, 111-117.
MARCONATO A. & BISAZZA A. 1986. Males whose nests contain eggs are preferred by females
Cottus gobio L. (Pisces, Cottidae). Anim. Behav., 34, 1580-1582.
BISAZZA A. & MARCONATO A. 1988. Female mate choice, male-male competition and parental care
in the river bullhead, Cottus gobio L. (Pisces, Cottidae). Anim. Behav., 36, 1352-1360.
MARCONATO A. & BISAZZA A 1988. Mate choice, egg cannibalism and reproductive success in the
river bullhed, Cottus gobio L. J. Fish Biol., 33, 905-916.
BISAZZA A., MARCONATO, A & MARIN, G 1989. Male competition and female choice in
Padogobius martensi (Pisces, Gobiidae). Anim. Behav., 38, 406-413.
MARCONATO A., BISAZZA A. & MARIN G. 1989. Correlates of male reproductive success in
Padogobius martensi (Gobiidae). J. Fish Biol., 34, 889-899.
BISAZZA A, MARCONATO A. & MARIN G. 1989. Male mate preferences in the mosquitofish
Gambusia holbrooki. Ethology, 83, 335-343.
DOWNHOWER J.F., BLUMER, L.S., LEJEUNE P., GAUDIN P., MARCONATO A. & BISAZZA A.
1990. Otholith asymmetry in Cottus bairdi and C. gobio. Pol. Arch. Hidrobiol. 37, 209-220.
BISAZZA A. & MARIN G. 1991. Male size and female mate choice in the eastern mosquitofish
(Gambusia holbrooki: Poeciliidae) Copeia 1991(3), 728-733 .
MARCONATO A., BISAZZA A & FABRIS, M 1993. The cost of parental care and eggs cannibalism
in the river bullhead, Cottus gobio L. (Pisces, Cottidae). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 32: 229-237.
ZULIAN E, BISAZZA A & MARIN G. 1993 Determinants of size in male eastern mosquitofish
(Gambusia holbrooki): inheritance and plasticity of a sexual selected character. Boll. Zool. 60: 317322.
BERGLUND A, MAGNHAGEN C, BISAZZA A, KOENIG B, HUNTINGFORD F. 1993 Femalefemale competition over reproduction. Behav. Ecol 4, 184-187.
ZULIAN E, BISAZZA A & MARIN G. 1995 Variation of adult male body size in natural populations of
Gambusia holbrooki Ethol. Ecol. Evol. 7: 1-10.
BISAZZA A. & MARIN G. 1995 Sexual selection and sexual size dimorphism in the eastern
mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki (Teleostei: Poeciliidae). Ethol. Ecol. Evol. 7: 169-183.
CANTALUPO C. BISAZZA A VALLORTIGARA G 1995 Lateralization of predator-evasion response
in a teleost fish (Girardinus falcatus). Neuropsychologia 33:1637-1646
BISAZZA A, CANTALUPO C, ROBINS A, ROGERS LJ & VALLORTIGARA G. 1996 Pawedness in
toads. Nature 379: 408
BISAZZA A. PILASTRO A PALAZZI R. MARIN G 1996 Sexual behaviour in immature male
mosqitofish. A way to measure the intensity of intra-sexual selection? J. Fish. Biol. 48: 551-560
BERGLUND A. BISAZZA A. PILASTRO A 1996 Armaments and ornaments: an evolutionary
explanation of traits of dual utility Biol. J. Limn. Soc. 58: 65-74
CANTALUPO C. BISAZZA A VALLORTIGARA G 1996 Lateralization of dispalys during
aggressive and courtship behaviour in the Siamese figthing-fish Betta splendens. Physiol. Behav.
61(1), 249-252
BISAZZA A & VALLORTIGARA G. 1996 Rotational bias in mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki): the
role of laterality and sun-compass navigation. Laterality 1 (2) 161-176
BISAZZA A, NOVARINI N. & PILASTRO A 1996 Male body size and male-male competition:
interspecific variation in poeciliid fishes Ital. J. Zool. 63: 365-369
BISAZZA A. CANTALUPO C. VALLORTIGARA G 1997 Lateral asymmetries during escape
behaviour in a specie of teleost fish (Jenynsia lineata). Physiol. Behav. 61: 31-35
BISAZZA A & PILASTRO A 1997 Small male mating advantage and the reverse dimorphism in
poeciliid fishes J. Fish. Biol. 50: 397-406.
BISAZZA A. GRAPPUTO A. NIGRO L. 1997 Evolution of reproductive strategies and male sexual
ornaments in poeciliid fishes as inferred by mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene phylogeny. Ethol. Ecol.
Evol. 9:55-67
BISAZZA A CANTALUPO C. ROBINS A. ROGERS L.J. & VALLORTIGARA G. 1997 Pawedness
and motor asymmetries in toads. Laterality 2: 49-64
PILASTRO A. GIACOMELLO E. & BISAZZA A. 1997 Sexual selection for small size in male
mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki). Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 264: 1125-1129
BISAZZA A., PIGNATTI R., & VALLORTIGARA G.1997 Laterality in detour behaviour: Interspecific
variation in poeciliid fishes Anim Behav 54: 1273-1281
BISAZZA A. 1997 Sexual selection constrained by internal fertilization in the livebearing fish Xenotoca
eiseni Anim. Behav. 54:1347-1355
BISAZZA A., PIGNATTI R., &. VALLORTIGARA G. 1997 Detour tests reveal task- and stimulusspecific behavioural lateralization in mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki). Behavioural Brain
research 89: 237-242
BISAZZA A. & VALLORTIGARA G. 1997 Rotational swimming preferences in Mosquitofish:
Evidence for brain lateralization? Physiol Behav 62:1405-1407
BISAZZA A., ROGERS L.J. & VALLORTIGARA G. 1998 The Evolution of Cerebral Asymmetry: A
review of evidence of behavioural and brain lateralization in Fishes, Reptiles and Amphibians.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 22:411-426
BISAZZA A., FACCHIN, L, PIGNATTI R., & VALLORTIGARA G. 1998 Lateralization of detour
behaviour in poeciliid fish: the effect of species, gender and sexual motivation. Behavioural Brain
research 91: 157-164
BERTORELLE G, BISAZZA A & MARCONATO A. 1998 Computer simulation suggests that the
spatial distribution of males influences female visiting behaviour in the river bullhead. Ethology
103: 999-1014
ROBINS, A., LIPPOLIS, G., BISAZZA, A., ROGERS, L.J., VALLORTIGARA, G. 1998. Lateralized
aggressive responses and hindlimb use in toads. Anim Behav 56 : 875-881
VALLORTIGARA, G., ROGERS, L.J., BISAZZA, A., LIPPOLIS, G., ROBINS, A. 1998.
Complementary right and left hemifield use for predatory and agonistic behaviour in toads
NeuroReport 9: 9 (14) : 3341-3344
RIZZOTTI M ARIAS A. M. FAGIUOLI G, GIOPPATO F & BISAZZA A. 1998 Fish haemoglobins:
the suborder Cyprinodontoidei (Teleostei) Trends in comparative biochemistry and physiology
5: 145-152
BISAZZA A. DE SANTI A & VALLORTIGARA G. 1999 Laterality and cooperation: mosquitofish
move closer to a predator when the companion is on the left side. Animal Behaviour 57:11451149
FACCHIN L. BISAZZA A & VALLORTIGARA G. 1999 What causes lateralization of detour
behaviour in fish? Evidence for asymmetries in eye use. Behavioural Brain research 103: 229-234
VALLORTIGARA, G., ROGERS, L.J., BISAZZA, A., 1999. Possible evolutionary origins of cognitive
brain lateralization. Brain Research Reviews 30: 164-175.
PILASTRO A. & BISAZZA A. 1999 Insemination efficiency of two alternative male mating tactics in
the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266 : 1887-1891
SOVRANO V.A., RAINOLDI, C., BISAZZA A & VALLORTIGARA G. 1999 Roots of brain
specializations: preferential left-eye use during mirror-image inspection in six species of teleost
fish. Behavioural Brain research 106: 175-180
BISAZZA A FACCHIN L. & VALLORTIGARA G. 2000 Heritability of lateralization in fish:
Concordance of right-left asymmetry of detour responses between parents and offspring
Neuropsychologia 38: 907-912
BISAZZA A. CANTALUPO C. CAPOCCHIANO M & VALLORTIGARA G 2000 Population
lateralization and social behaviour: A study with sixteen species of fish. Laterality 5: 269-284
DE SANTI, A., CAPPELLETTI M., BISAZZA, A., VALLORTIGARA, G.2000 Prior exposure to the
predator influences laterality of cooperative predator inspection in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata
Italian Journal of Zoology 67: 175-178
BISAZZA A. and PILASTRO A 2000 Genetic variation of female preference for male coloration in the
eastern mosquitofish Behav Genetics 30: 207-212
BISAZZA A., PILASTRO A & MANFREDI S. 2000 Sexual competition, coercive mating and mate
assessment in the one–sided livebearer, Jenynsia multidentata. Are they predictive of sexual
dimorphism? Ethology 106: 961-978
DE SANTI, A., SOVRANO, V.A., BISAZZA, A., VALLORTIGARA, G. 2001 Mosquitofish display
differential left- and right-eye use during mirror-image scrutiny and predator-inspection responses
Anim Behav 61: 305-310
BISAZZA A., VACCARI G & PILASTRO A 2001 Female mate choice in a mating system dominated
by sexual coercion Behavioral Ecology 12: 59-64.
LIPPOLIS, G., BISAZZA, A. and VALLORTIGARA, G. 2001 Lateralization of ventral fins use during
object exploration in the blue gourami (Trichogaster trichopterus) Physiology & Behavior 72:
575-578
BISAZZA A., SOVRANO V.A., VALLORTIGARA G. 2001. Consistency among different tasks of
left-right asymmetries in lines of fish originally selected for opposite direction of lateralization in a
detour task Neuropsychologia 39 1077-1085
SOVRANO V.A., BISAZZA, A, VALLORTIGARA, G 2001 Lateralization of response to social
stimuli in fishes: a comparison between different methods and species. Physiology & behavior
74: 237-244.
LIPPOLIS, G., BISAZZA, A. L. J. ROGERS and VALLORTIGARA, G. 2002 lateralization of predator
avoidance responses in three species of toads Laterality 7 : 163-183
DE SANTI A , BISAZZA A., VALLORTIGARA G. (2002) Complementary left and right eye use
during predator inspection and shoal-mate scrutiny in minnows J. Fish. Biol 60: 1116-1125
BISAZZA, A. DE SANTI, A., BONSO, S. SOVRANO, V.A. (2002) Frogs and toads in front of a
mirror: lateralisation of response to social stimuli in tadpoles of five anuran species Behavioural
Brain research. 134: 417-424
PILASTRO A, EVANS JP, SARTORELLI S BISAZZA A (2002) Male phenotype predicts
insemination success in guppies Proceeding of The Royal Society of London - Series B:
Biological Sciences 269: 1325-1330.
SOVRANO V.A., BISAZZA, A, VALLORTIGARA, G. (2002) Modularity and spatial reorientation in
a simple mind: Encoding of geometric and nongeometric properties of a spatial environment by
fish. Cognition 8: 51-59
DADDA M. SOVRANO V.A., BISAZZA, A. (2003) Temporal pattern of social aggregation in tadpoles
and its influence on the measurement of lateralised response to social stimuli. Physiology &
Behavior, 78: 337-341
BISAZZA, A. DE SANTI, A. (2003) Lateralization of aggression in fish. Behavioural Brain Research.
141: 131-136
SOVRANO V.A., BISAZZA, A, VALLORTIGARA, G. (2003) Modularity as a Fish (Xenotoca eiseni)
Views It: Conjoining Geometric and Nongeometric Information for Spatial Reorientation, Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 29: 199-210
PILASTRO A., BENETTON S. , BISAZZA A. (2003) Female aggregation and male competition
reduce costs of sexual harassment in the mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki, Animal Behaviour,
65: 1161-1167
PILASTRO A., SIMONATO M. BISAZZA A. AND J. P. EVANS (2004) Cryptic female preference
for colorful males in guppies. Evolution, 58: 665–669
EVANS J. P., BISAZZA A. AND A. PILASTRO (2004) Female mating preferences for colourful males
in a high predation population of guppies. Journal of Fish Biology 65: 1154-1159
EVANS J.P., KELLEY J.L., BISAZZA A, FINAZZO E., A. PILASTRO (2004) Sire attractiveness
influences offspring performance in guppies Proceeding of The Royal Society of London - Series
B: Biological Sciences 271: 2035-2042
BISAZZA A., DADDA M. AND C. CANTALUPO (2005) Further evidence for mirror-reversed
laterality in lines of fish selected for leftward or rightward turning when facing a predator model
Behavioural Brain Research 156: 165-71
DADDA, M., PILASTRO, A. & BISAZZA, A. (2005). Male sexual harassment and female schooling
behaviour in the easter mosquitofish. Animal Behaviour 70: 463-471
BISAZZA A., DADDA M.(2005) Enhanced schooling performance in lateralised fish. Proceeding of
The Royal Society of London - Series B: Biological Sciences 272: 1677 - 1681
SOVRANO V.A., BISAZZA A., DADDA M. (2005) Lateralized fish perform better than nonlateralized
fish in spatial reorientation tasks Behavioural Brain Research 163: 122-127
SOVRANO, V.A., BISAZZA, A., VALLORTIGARA, G. (2005) Animals' use of landmarks and metric
information to reorient: effects of the size of the experimental space Cognition, 97: 121-133
DADDA, M., BISAZZA, A. (2006) Does brain asymmetry allow efficient performance of simultaneous
tasks? Animal Behaviour 72: 523-529
DADDA, M., BISAZZA, A. (2006) Lateralized female topminnows can forage and attend to a harassing
male simultaneously. Behavioral Ecology 17: 358-363
AGRILLO C., DADDA M., BISAZZA A. (2006) Sexual harassment influences group choice in female
mosquitofish. Ethology, 112: 592-598.
GRAPPUTO A, BISAZZA A, PILASTRO A (2006) Invasion success despite reduction of genetic
diversity in the European populations of eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) Italian
Journal of Zoology 73: 67-73
AGRILLO C., DADDA M., BISAZZA A. (2007) Quantity discrimination in female mosquitofish
Animal Cognition, 10, 63-70.
SOVRANO, V.A., BISAZZA, A., VALLORTIGARA, G. (2007) How fish do geometry in large and in
small spaces Animal Cognition, 10: 47-54
BISAZZA A., DADDA M., FACCHIN L. & VIGO F. (2007) Artificial selection on laterality in the
teleost fish Girardinus falcatus Behavioural Brain Research 178: 29-38
PILASTRO A. MANDELLI M., GASPARINI C., DADDA M. & BISAZZA A. (2007) Copulation
duration, insemination efficiency and male attractiveness in guppies Animal Behaviour 74: 321328
DADDA, M., ZANDONÀ , E. & BISAZZA, A. (2007) Emotional responsiveness in fish from lines
artificially selected for a high or low degree of laterality Physiology & Behavior 92: 764-772
SOVRANO, V.A., BISAZZA, A., (2008) Recognition of partly occluded objects by fish Animal
cognition 11:161-166
GARCIA-BERTHOU E., BISAZZA A., ALCARAZ C. (2008) Salinity mediates the competitive
interactions between invasive mosquitofish and an endangered fish Oecologia 155: 205-213
AGRILLO C., DADDA M., SERENA G. BISAZZA A. (2008) Do fish count? Discrimination of
relative numerosity in female mosquitofish Animal cognition 11: 495-503
DADDA, M., PILASTRO, A. & BISAZZA, A. (2008) Innate responses to male sexual harassment in
female mosquitofish Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 63: 53-62
FACCHIN, L., ARGENTON, F., BISAZZA, A. (2009) Lines of Danio rerio selected for opposite
behavioural lateralization show differences in anatomical left-right asymmetries Behavioural
Brain Research 197: 157-165
SOVRANO, V.A., BISAZZA, A., (2009) Perception of subjective contours in fish Perception 38: 579590
AGRILLO C., DADDA M., BISAZZA A. (2009) Escape behaviour elicited by a visual stimulus. A
comparison between lateralised and non-lateralised female topminnows. Laterality 14: 300-314
AGRILLO C, DADDA M, SERENA G, BISAZZA A (2009) Use of Number by Fish. PLoS ONE 4(3):
e4786.
DADDA M, PIFFER, L, AGRILLO C, BISAZZA A (2009) Spontaneous number representation in
mosquitofish Cognition 112: 343-348
DADDA, M., ZANDONÀ , E., AGRILLO C, BISAZZA, A. (2009) The costs of hemispheric
specialization in a fish. Proceeding of The Royal Society of London - Series B: Biological
Sciences 276 : 4399-4407
DADDA M, DOMENICHINI, A., PIFFER, L, ARGENTON, F., BISAZZA A (2010) Early differences
in epithalamic left-right asymmetry influence lateralization and personality of adult zebrafish
Behavioural Brain Research 206: 208-215
TRUPPA, V., SOVRANO, V.A., SPINOZZI G., BISAZZA, A., (2010) Processing of visual
hierarchical stimuli by fish (Xenotoca eiseni) Behavioural Brain Research 207; 51-60
BISAZZA A, PIFFER, L, SERENA G, AGRILLO C (2010) Ontogeny of Numerical Abilities in Fish
PLoS ONE 5 (11 ): e15516
AGRILLO C, PIFFER, L, BISAZZA A (2010) Large Number Discrimination by Mosquitofish. PLoS
ONE 5(12): e15232
AGRILLO C, PIFFER, L, BISAZZA A (2011) Number versus continuous quantity in numerosity
judgments by fish Cognition, vol. 119, p. 281-287
DOMENICHINI A, DADDA M, FACCHIN L, BISAZZA A, ARGENTON F (2011). Isolation and
Genetic Characterization of Mother-of-Snow-White, a Maternal Effect Allele Affecting Laterality
and Lateralized Behaviors in Zebrafish. PLoS ONE, vol. 6 (10), e25972
AGRILLO C, PIFFER, L, BISAZZA A, BUTTERWORTH B. (2012) Evidence for two numerical
systems that are similar in humans and guppies PLOS ONE, 7 (2), e31923
PARMA V, TIRINDELLI R, BISAZZA A, MASSACCESI S, CASTIELLO U. (2012) Subliminally
perceived odours modulate female intrasexual competition: an eye movement study PLOS ONE 7
(2), e30645
AGRILLO C, MILETTO PETRAZZINI M.E, PIFFER, L, DADDA M, BISAZZA A, (2012) A new
procedure for studying discrimination learning in fishes Behavioural Brain Research 230: 343348
AGRILLO C, MILETTO PETRAZZINI M.E, TAGLIAPIETRA C, BISAZZA A, (2012) Inter-Specific
Differences in Numerical Abilities Among Teleost Fish Frontiers in Psychology. 2012; 3: 483
DADDA M, BISAZZA A (2012) Prenatal light exposure affects development of behavioural
lateralization in a livebearing fish. Behavioural Processes 91: 115–118
MILETTO PETRAZZINI M.E, AGRILLO C, PIFFER, L, DADDA M, BISAZZA A (2012)
Development and application of a new method to investigate cognition in newborn guppies.
Behavioural Brain Research 233: 443–449
DADDA M, NEPOMNYASHCHIKH, V A, IZVEKOV E I, BISAZZA A (2012) Individual-Level
Consistency of Different Laterality Measures in the Goldbelly topminnow. Behavioral
Neuroscience 126: 845–849
Schartl M, Walter RB, Shen Y, Garcia T, Catchen J, Amores A, Braasch I, Chalopin D, Volff JN, Lesch
KP, Bisazza A, Minx P, Hillier LD, Wilson R K, Fuerstenberg S, Boore J, Searle S, Postlethwait
JH, Warren W C. (2013) The genome of the platyfish, Xiphophorus maculatus, provides insights
into evolutionary adaptation and several complex traits Nature Genetics 45: 567–572
MILETTO PETRAZZINI ME, AGRILLO C, PIFFER L, BISAZZA A (2014). Ontogeny of the capacity
to compare discrete quantities in fish. Developmental Psychobiology. 56: 529–536, AGRILLO C, MILETTO PETRAZZINI ME, BISAZZA A. (2014). Numerical acuity of fish is
improved in the presence of moving targets, but only in the subitizing range. Animal Cognition 17:
307-316
BISAZZA A, BUTTERWORTH B, PIFFER L, BAHRAMI B, PETRAZZINI MEM, AGRILLO C
(2014). Collective enhancement of numerical acuity by meritocratic leadership in fish Scientific
Reports 4, 4560
LUCON-XICCATO T, BISAZZA A (2014) Discrimination reversal learning reveals greater female
behavioural flexibility in guppies Biology Letters 10 (6), 20140206
BISAZZA A, TAGLIAPIETRA C, BERTOLUCCI C, FOÀ A, AGRILLO C (2014) Non-visual
numerical discrimination in a blind cavefish (Phreatichthys andruzzii) The Journal of
experimental biology 217, 1902-1909
BISAZZA A, AGRILLO C, LUCON-XICCATO T (2014) Extensive training extends numerical abilities
of guppies Animal cognition, 1-7
GORI S, AGRILLO C, DADDA M, BISAZZA A (2014) Do fish perceive illusory motion? Scientific
reports 4 6443
AGRILLO C, BISAZZA A (2014) Spontaneous versus trained numerical abilities. A comparison
between the two main tools to study numerical competence in non-human animals Journal of
neuroscience methods 234, 82–91
Books chapters
BISAZZA A (1992). Male competition, female choice and sexual size dimorphism in poeciliid fishes. pp
257-286 in "The Behavioural Ecology of Fishes" edito da F. Huntingford & P. Torricelli. 1993:
Harwood Academic Press.
VALLORTIGARA, G., BISAZZA, A., (2002) How ancient is brain lateralization? pp 9-69. In:
Comparative vertebrate lateralization L.J. Rogers & R.J. Andrews Eds. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge UK
BISAZZA, A., BROWN, C. (2011) Lateralization of cognitive function in fish In: Fish Cognition and
Behaviour 2nd Edition pp 298-324. In: Brown, C., Laland K. & Krause, J. Eds., Blackwell
Publishing, Cambridge, UK.
BISAZZA, A., (2011) Cognition. pp165-173. In Ecology and evolution of livebearing fishes. J. Evans,
A. Pilastro, and I. Schlupp Eds. Oxford University Press, Oxford UK

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