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Neuroethology

The study of the neural basis of behaviour - neuroethology - is a core area of JEB. This subject collection brings together a selection of content published in the journal since 2015 and spans the breadth and depth of neuroethology across a range of taxa.

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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Buzzing boundaries: tiny caterpillars vibrate to defend leaf tip territories Open Access
Sarah M. Matheson; Leonardo M. Turchen; Emilie Mauduit; Jayne E. Yack
01 April 2025
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249796
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Is this scenery worth exploring? Insight into the visual encoding of navigating ants Available to Purchase
Leo Clement; Sebastian Schwarz; Blandine Mahot-Castaing; Antoine Wystrach
07 March 2025
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249935
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Coming home: how visually navigating ants ( Myrmecia spp.) pinpoint their nest Open Access
Jochen Zeil
27 January 2025
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249499
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Tiny spies: mosquito antennae are sensitive sensors for eavesdropping on frog calls Open Access
Hoover Pantoja-Sánchez; Brian C. Leavell; Bianca Rendon; W. A. Priyanka P. de-Silva; Richa Singh; Jian Zhou; Gil Menda; Ronald R. Hoy; Ronald N. Miles; Neil D. Sanscrainte; Ximena E. Bernal
11 December 2023
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245359
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Impacts of repeated social defeat on behavior and the brain in a cichlid fish Free
C. Rose Wayne; Ava M. Karam; Alora L. McInnis; Catherine M. Arms; Michael D. Kaller; Karen P. Maruska
20 November 2023
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.246322
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Displacement experiments provide evidence for path integration in Drosophila Open Access
Anna V. Titova; Benedikt E. Kau; Shir Tibor; Jana Mach; T. Thang Vo-Doan; Matthias Wittlinger; Andrew D. Straw
16 June 2023
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245289
RESEARCH ARTICLE
A sensation for inflation: initial swim bladder inflation in larval zebrafish is mediated by the mechanosensory lateral line Open Access
Alexandra Venuto; Stacey Thibodeau-Beganny; Josef G. Trapani; Timothy Erickson
05 June 2023
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245635
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Polarization sensitivity and decentralized visual processing in an animal with a distributed visual system Free
Daniel R. Chappell; Daniel I. Speiser
16 February 2023
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.244710
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Parasitoid wasp venom re-programs host behavior through downmodulation of brain central complex activity and motor output Open Access
Amit Rana; Michael E. Adams; Frederic Libersat
13 February 2023
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245252
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Subsets of leg proprioceptors influence leg kinematics but not interleg coordination in Drosophila melanogaster walking Open Access
Alexander S. Chockley; Gesa F. Dinges; Giulia Di Cristina; Sara Ratican; Till Bockemühl; Ansgar Büschges
24 October 2022
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.244245
RESEARCH ARTICLE
The marine gastropod Conomurex luhuanus (Strombidae) has high-resolution spatial vision and eyes with complex retinas Open Access
Alison R. Irwin; Suzanne T. Williams; Daniel I. Speiser; Nicholas W. Roberts
26 August 2022
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243927
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Active exploration of an environment drives the activation of the hippocampus–amygdala complex of domestic chicks Free
Anastasia Morandi-Raikova; Uwe Mayer
11 August 2022
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.244190
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Random attention can explain apparent object choice behavior in free-walking blowflies Free
José Monteagudo; Martin Egelhaaf; Jens Peter Lindemann
27 April 2022
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243801
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Parasitoid wasp venom manipulates host innate behavior via subtype-specific dopamine receptor activation Open Access
Stefania Nordio; Maayan Kaiser; Michael E. Adams; Frederic Libersat
23 March 2022
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243674
COMMENTARY
Biological constraints on configural odour mixture perception Free
Gérard Coureaud; Thierry Thomas-Danguin; Jean-Christophe Sandoz; Donald A. Wilson
14 March 2022
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.242274
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Spatial perception mediated by insect antennal mechanosensory system Open Access
Nwuneke Okereke Ifere; Hisashi Shidara; Nodoka Sato; Hiroto Ogawa
24 February 2022
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243276
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Bumblebees display characteristics of active vision during robust obstacle avoidance flight Open Access
Sridhar Ravi; Tim Siesenop; Olivier J. Bertrand; Liang Li; Charlotte Doussot; Alex Fisher; William H. Warren; Martin Egelhaaf
18 February 2022
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243021
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Stimulus-dependent orientation strategies in monarch butterflies Open Access
Myriam Franzke; Christian Kraus; Maria Gayler; David Dreyer; Keram Pfeiffer; Basil el Jundi
11 February 2022
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243687
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Behavioural responses of threespine stickleback with lateral line asymmetries to experimental mechanosensory stimuli Free
Nicholas P. Planidin; Thomas E. Reimchen
17 January 2022
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243661
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Neuroligin 1 expression is linked to plasticity of behavioral and neuronal responses to sex pheromone in the male moth Agrotis ipsilon Free
Nicolas Durand; Paleo Aguilar; Elodie Demondion; Thomas Bourgeois; Françoise Bozzolan; Stéphane Debernard
18 November 2021
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243184
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