171 papers
This study demonstrates that female *Aedes aegypti* mosquitoes rely on surface texture as a primary cue to guide egg-laying site selection, integrating it with water salinity and modulating their search speed to optimize offspring fitness.
This study reveals that sound-evoked facial motion in ferrets is dominated by a delayed, onset-locked response to acoustic novelty rather than sound identity, suggesting that the tight sensorimotor coupling observed in mice is a species-specific trait rather than a general mammalian principle.
This paper introduces a high-throughput framework that integrates 3D pose estimation with unsupervised hidden Markov modeling to transform rodent open-field behavior into discrete syllables, utilizing Shannon entropy and spectral eigenvalue metrics to quantify the organization and temporal persistence of spontaneous behavior as a stochastic dynamical system.
This study demonstrates that cannabidiol (CBD) dose-dependently modulates acute and repeated Δ9-THC-induced changes in motor activity and hypothermia in mice, with effects varying significantly by sex and genetic strain, while showing no impact on antinociception.
This study demonstrates that resveratrol-loaded, ApoE-enriched fusogenic liposomes effectively target the aged cerebrovascular system by directly fusing with endothelial membranes, thereby rejuvenating vascular function and cognitive performance in aged mice at doses 2000-fold lower than oral administration.
This study demonstrates that while environmental complexity hinders bumble bees' initial detection of novel flowers, individual foraging traits—specifically faster movement and a lower tendency to form fixed routines—are the primary predictors of their success in solving novel foraging problems.
This study demonstrates that while direct haemolymph injections of isoamyl acetate (IAA) can induce concentration-dependent preference or avoidance in *Bicyclus anynana* larvae that are subsequently inherited by their offspring, the molecule itself is not directly implicated in the intergenerational transmission of these learned odour preferences.
Through simulation experiments, this paper demonstrates that cognitive capacity determines both the likelihood and the specific strategy of social learning, revealing an inverse-U relationship where moderate capacity maximizes social information use and a shift from success bias to conformism as capacity increases.
This paper presents an evolutionary model of working memory that bridges cognitive theory and evolutionary pressures, revealing a synergistic yet prioritized relationship between storage capacity and control that predicts distinct cognitive regimes and diverse intelligence patterns across animal lineages.
This study demonstrates that the migratory red underwing moth (*Catocala nupta*) relies on a stellar compass for directional orientation but lacks a magnetic map for positional navigation and does not utilize magnetic cues for compass orientation in the absence of visual information.
This study demonstrates that the photoswitchable drug Carbadiazocine can reversibly impair the optomotor response and alter swimming kinematics in zebrafish larvae through light-induced modulation, establishing it as a novel tool for probing sensorimotor circuits across species.
This study reveals that dedicated and non-dedicated coral reef cleaner fish exhibit distinct interspecific variations in cheating behavior and responses to social context, with specific species like *Labroides bicolor* adjusting their exploitation strategies based on client type and the presence of bystanders, thereby highlighting species-specific strategies that influence mutualism stability.
By analyzing a comprehensive database of 11 African papionin species, this study reveals that diverse primate social structures exist on a gradient shaped by varying strengths of kinship and dominance biases, distinguishing between cohesive, cliquish, and multi-level societies.
This study demonstrates that while Solenopsis xyloni fire ants rely heavily on pheromone trails for navigation and often abandon foraging when trails are disrupted, the presence of a high-quality food source significantly increases their persistence in attempting to reach the resource despite the lack of navigational cues.
This study demonstrates that zebra finches exhibit flexible, contingent vocal interactions with a real-time AI model (ZF-AIM), revealing that predictive timing drives responsiveness while acoustic structure is essential for vocal flexibility, thereby establishing a powerful framework for investigating animal communication dynamics.
BEEhaviourLab is a low-cost, automated, high-throughput platform that integrates multimodal video and audio tracking to detect sublethal neurotoxic effects in diverse insect species, offering a scalable solution to improve chemical risk assessment beyond traditional mortality endpoints.
This study bridges the gap between automated computer vision and human assessment of the Mouse Grimace Scale by evaluating three dominant paradigms, demonstrating that they achieve reliable binary classification of mouse well-being with low error rates while focusing on relevant facial features beyond the traditional scale.
This study utilizes computer-controlled tasks and pose-tracking to reveal that while dogs are more likely to wag their tails during positive anticipation, tail kinematics in negative contexts reflect arousal rather than valence, suggesting that tail wagging may be primarily a social signal rather than a universal indicator of emotional state.
This study demonstrates that in the mouse dorsal dentate gyrus, the acquisition and extinction of cocaine-context memories engage fundamentally distinct, non-overlapping epigenetic and transcriptional mechanisms, providing a molecular basis for why extinction suppresses rather than erases drug memories.
This study introduces the PERCS framework to deconstruct behavioral persistence into five dissociable dimensions, demonstrating through mouse operant conditioning that unrewarded effort, rather than reward delivery, drives persistent behavior and that distinct task schedules differentially shape these dimensions to reveal stable phenotypic profiles.