... they were suspended on their wings and provided with a thermocol ball (foam ball). Drosophila indeed exhibited ball rolling behavior. We further examined the sexual dimorphism in this ball rolling-associated locomotor behavior. We carried out a ball rolling assay using 3-day-old male and female w 1118 flies...

...Neha Rajput; Kush Parikh; Justin W. Kenney ABSTRACT Individual differences in exploratory behavior have been found across a range of taxa and are thought to contribute to evolutionary fitness. Animals that explore more of a novel environment and visit areas of high predation risk are considered...

... facilitation). Pupation delay and effects on behavior that are likely due to synaptic alterations within the central nervous system were discovered in rapamycin-fed larvae. These results allow for several conclusions as to how mTOR inhibition by rapamycin affects a developing organism. This could eventually...

... with or without a TRPA1-specific inhibitor, A-967079. Hypoxic stimulation induced escape behavior in C. teleta from the sediment, and this behavior was suppressed by the inhibitor. The cloned TRPA gene from C. teleta was phylogenetically categorized into TRPAbasal , and contains an oxygen-dependent degradation...

... prefers ethanol the most. Behavior Evolution Decision making Drosophila melanogaster has become a premier model organism for the study of the connections between genes, brain, and behavior. Considerable work has utilized the courtship behavior of males as a system ( Ryner et al., 1996...

... males based on types of aggressive behavior: (1) males that display escalating levels of aggression and court females while they establish a territory, and (2) males that display a stable level of aggression and delay courting females until they have established a territory. To profile differences...

... functions. To such ends, we show age- and irradiation-dependent influences for the development of macrocytic hyper chromic anemia, myelodysplasia, blood protein reductions and body composition changes. Humanization contributes to hematologic abnormalities. Home cage behavior revealed day and dark cycle...

... of neurotransmitter regulation combined with the tools of quantitative behavioral assays as a functional readout for neuronal activity, renders planarians an ideal system for studying how the nervous system controls behavior. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) Competing interests...