Compression principle and Zipf's Law of brevity in infochemical communication
| العنوان: | Compression principle and Zipf's Law of brevity in infochemical communication |
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| المؤلفون: | Ivan González Torre, Antoni Hernández-Fernández |
| المساهمون: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. LARCA - Laboratori d'Algorísmia Relacional, Complexitat i Aprenentatge |
| المصدر: | Biology letters. 18(7) |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Brevity law, Databases, Factual, Compression, Zipf's, Llei de, Zipf's law of brevity, Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous), Infochemicals, Chemical communication, Communication systems, Pheromones, Lingüística -- Mètodes estadístics, Animal Communication, Feromones, Allomones, Linguistic laws, Zipf’s law, Allelochemicals, Semiochemicals, Animals, Humans, Linguistics -- Statistical methods, Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial::Llenguatge natural [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Handicap Principle, Language |
| الوصف: | Compression has been presented as a general principle of animal communication. Zipf’s Law of brevity is a manifestation of this postulate and can be generalized as the tendency of more frequent communicative elements to be shorter. Previous works supported this claim, showing evidence of Zipf’s Law of brevity in animal acoustical communication and human language. However, a significant part of the communicative effort in biological systems is carried out in other transmission channels, such as those based on infochemicals. To fill this gap, we seek, for the first time, evidence of this principle in infochemical communication by analysing the statistical tendency of more frequent infochemicals to be chemically shorter and lighter. We analyse data from the largest and most comprehensive open-access infochemical database known as Pherobase, recovering Zipf’s Law of brevity in interspecific communication (allelochemicals) but not in intraspecific communication (pheromones). Moreover, these results are robust even when addressing different magnitudes of study or mathematical approaches. Therefore, different dynamics from the compression principle would dominate intraspecific chemical communication, defying the universality of Zipf’s Law of brevity. To conclude, we discuss the exception found for pheromones in the light of other potential communicative paradigms such as pressures on successful communication or the Handicap principle. Peer Reviewed Objectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::14 - Vida Submarina Objectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::15 - Vida d'Ecosistemes Terrestres |
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