Aggregate aggression levels do not modulate subsequent interactions with females.

<p>(A) Schematic of aggressive social sequences. (B) The number of male–female interactions for the more or less aggressive male following aggressive behaviors. Lines connect co-recorded mice. The horizontal bars and boxes below the data show the medians and interquartile ranges (25%–75%). Wilcoxon signed rank test, W = 27, <i>p</i> = 0.30. (C) The latency between aggressive encounters and social interactions. Wilcoxon signed rank test, W = 31, <i>p</i> = 0.36. (D) The duration of social interactions following aggressive encounters. Wilcoxon signed rank test, W = 31, <i>p</i> = 0.36. (E) Decoders’ performance when predicting the aggregate aggression level of the male social partner in post-aggression social interactions. The horizontal bars and boxes below the data show the means and standard deviations. The red line denotes chance levels. Each condition: 1-sided z-test, <i>n</i> = 1,000 iterations. Observed: z = 0.21, <i>p</i> = 0.83; size-matched: z = −0.29, <i>p</i> = 0.77; randomized: z = 0.39, <i>p</i> = 0.70. Numerical values for S6B–S6D Fig are available as an online supporting file (S1 Data). Source data can be found in <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002496#pbio.3002496.s013" target="_blank">S1</a>–<a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002496#pbio.3002496.s024" target="_blank">12</a> Datasets.</p> <p>(DOCX)</p>