...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...

..., and a delay to pupation was quantified. Behavioral deficits were documented in rapamycin-treated larvae. Electrophysiological measurements were taken to discern changes in muscle physiology and synaptic signaling (i.e. resting membrane potential, amplitude of excitatory post-synaptic potentials, synaptic...

... 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...

... ovipositing on ethanol when it is close to a non-ethanol substrate, but strongly avoids ethanol when options are farther apart. We also show fluidity of these behaviors among other Drosophila species: D. melanogaster is more responsive to ethanol than close relatives in that it prefers ethanol more than other...

...Rosa M. Alcazar; Lisa Becker; Austin T. Hilliard; Kai R. Kent; Russell D. Fernald ABSTRACT Male African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni , have been classified as dominant or subordinate, each with unique behavioral and endocrine profiles. Here we characterize two distinct subclasses of dominant...

... cells in disease pathogenesis and therapeutic studies requires lengthy investigations. The interplay between human immunity and mouse biology proves ever more complicated when aging, irradiation, and human immune reconstitution are considered. All can affect a range of biochemical and behavioral...

... specific expression profiles. Of these six planarian homologs, two are necessary for normal tissue homeostasis, and the loss of another, Smed-dynA-1 , leads to an abnormal behavioral phenotype, which we have quantified using automated center of mass tracking. Smed-dynA-1 is primarily expressed...