Issues

Summary: The relationship between oxygen consumption rate and heart rate in the loggerhead turtle.

Summary: This study found that initial parasitic behaviour, namely ‘rubbing behaviour’, of the temporary social parasitic species Polyrhachis lamellidens can be induced by exposure to a combination of chitin and host cuticular compounds.

Summary: We conducted measurements of the taking-off motion of a butterfly (Pieris rapae) and numerical simulations using a more sophisticated computational model than existing butterfly models.

Summary: This study we uncover a novel function of HCN channels in layer 5–6 medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) circuit: regulate inhibitory input of pyramidal neurons.

Summary: Ocean acidification alters fish behaviour. We show altered expression of genes involved in neuroplasticity and neuromodulation in fish exposed to high PCO₂, highlighting their possible roles in such behavioural alterations.

Summary: Defects in the polynucleotide kinase, CLP1, and the tRNA splicing endonuclease (TSEN) complex display overlapping phenotypes in both vertebrates and invertebrates.

Summary: This study reports that exposure to perinatal multi-hit stress (protein malnourishment and immune stress) causes changes in the hippocampal cells alongside behavioral deficits which are also observed in Schizophrenic condition.

Summary: Understanding how leading cells in keratocyte cell sheets are affected when their followers ‘ride’ on them and how this alters their basal membrane's height fluctuations and fluctuation tension.

Summary: Use of several specific shRNAs is not enough to escape a pitfall of their off-target activity: the case of Adam10 and Adam17 silencing.

Summary: DNMT1 is overexpressed in sponge bone of people and mice with senile osteoporosis and required for suppression of osteoblast (OB) differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and osteoprogenitors.

Summary: Using commercial digital 3D body meshes, body segment inertial parameters of humans and animals can be estimated, expanding the possibilities and the spectrum of species considered in biomechanics research.

Summary: This approach combines fictive locomotion, elicited through the optomotor response, and calcium imaging or optogenetics, to investigate the role of neuronal populations in shaping motor output.

Summary: A new transgenic zebrafish model enables the regulated induction and resolution of systemic inflammation.