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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: | Hernández Fernández, Antonio, González Torre, Iván |
| المساهمون: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. LARCA - Laboratori d'Algorísmia Relacional, Complexitat i Aprenentatge |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech: UPCommons - Global access to UPC knowledge |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial::Llenguatge natural, Zipf’s law, Pheromones, Linguistics -- Statistical methods, Infochemicals, Semiochemicals, Allomones, Allelochemicals, Handicap Principle, Chemical communication, Zipf's law of brevity, Brevity law, Linguistic laws, Compression, Communication systems, Zipf's, Llei de, Feromones, Lingüística -- Mètodes estadístics |
| 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 ; Postprint (author's final draft) |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | 7 p.; application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1744-957X |
| Relation: | Hernández-Fernández, A.; González, I. Compression principle and Zipf's Law of brevity in infochemical communication. "Biology letters", Juliol 2022, vol. 18, núm. 7, p. 1-7.; http://hdl.handle.net/2117/374318 |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0162 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/2117/374318 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0162 |
| Rights: | Open Access |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.FC12BD23 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1744957X |
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| DOI: | 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0162 |