... of outbreeding . Mol. Biol. Evol. 22 , 160 - 173 . 10.1093/molbev/msh264 Hilbert , Z. A. and Kim , D. H. ( 2017 ). Sexually dimorphic control of gene expression in sensory neurons regulates decision-making behavior in C. elegans . eLife 6 , e21166 . 10.7554/eLife.21166...

...Carla A. Salido; Brian J. Gancedo; Daniel Tomsic ABSTRACT Decision-making processes in the context of prey–predator interactions are studied from the side of the prey or the predator. Thus, prey capture and escape behaviours are researched separately, using different stimuli in different species...

... pollinators. Research into bee behaviour and foraging decisions has typically centred on managed eusocial bee species, including Apis mellifera and Bombus terrestris . Non-eusocial bees are understudied with respect to foraging strategies and decision making, such as flower preferences. Understanding whether...

... this by integrating brightness change during runs. Drosophila melanogaster larvae Animal behavior Posture tracking Navigation Decision making Modeling Many animals have evolved behaviors to find favorable locations in complex natural environments. Such behaviors include chemotaxis to approach...

..., reducing agonistic behaviors and rank reversals. These findings demonstrate that exchange of sensory signals modulates future anti-predatory decision-making and intraspecific agonistic behaviors discretely, suggesting that the effect of these signals on shared neural circuitry is context dependent...

...Martyna J. Grabowska; James Steeves; Julius Alpay; Matthew Van De Poll; Deniz Ertekin; Bruno van Swinderen ABSTRACT Visual decision making in animals is influenced by innate preferences as well as experience. Interaction between hard-wired responses and changing motivational states determines...

...: Hunting archerfish use information sampled in less than 100 ms to assess the initial height of ballistically falling prey. Depth vision Visual perception Predation Fast-start Decision making Archerfish dislodge aerial prey from twigs or leaves by a shot of water fired from their mouth...

... different velocities on different substrates, rather than the shortest distance. The progress of decision making by these ants is determined by pheromone-based maintenance of paths, which is a collective decision. However, path optimization through individual decision making remains mostly unexplored. Here...

...Alberto Corral-López; Alexander Kotrschal; Niclas Kolm ABSTRACT Understanding what drives animal decisions is fundamental in evolutionary biology, and mate choice decisions are arguably some of the most important in any individual's life. As cognitive ability can impact decision making, elucidating...

... http://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: Male fish gradually reduce anti-predator vigilance with increased fight duration, but can maintain greater vigilance for high danger threats than for low danger threats. Cognitive trade-off Decision making Interspecific competition...

... activity of the medicinal leech. The presence and characteristics of the stomatogastric nervous system, vital for feeding, are reported here for the first time. Feeding Serotonin Dopamine Central pattern generator Decision making Neuromodulation For many decades, the European medicinal...

... and is reliably predicted by a computational model based on pattern and intensity cues. Decision making Acoustic communication Female choice Phonotaxis Mate choice can be viewed as a computational chain of information-processing steps at the end of which a decision is made ( Bateson and Healy...

... simple heuristics (‘rules of thumb’) to decide when to leave a patch; these heuristics differ between species. Decision making Foraging Protist Rules of thumb Sampling Unicellular Animals foraging in patchy environments are faced with complex decisions about how to search for food...

... have to be consolidated to yield a consensus. One platform on which decision making can be examined is the relocation of animal societies. Relocation is the process by which organisms move from their old dwelling to a new nest along with all the inhabitants. This exposes them to the elements and thus...

...James J. Jun; André Longtin; Leonard Maler Cortical activity precedes self-initiated movements by several seconds in mammals; this observation has led into inquiries on the nature of volition. Preparatory neural activity is known to be associated with decision making and movement planning. Self...

... communication decision making phonotaxis The role of fluctuating asymmetry in sexual selection is much debated. After Møller suggested that small deviations from bilateral symmetry in male sexual ornaments may reliably reveal male quality ( Møller, 1990 ), and the discovery that these differences...

... choice animation decision making © 2012. 2012 16 12 2011 11 3 2012 * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) ...

... © 2010. 2010 movement vision Salticidae decision making cognition psychophysics The quantification of perceptual thresholds allows for the assessment of the abilities and limitations of an animal's sensory system. It also permits an understanding of how brains ‘filter...

... 2010 © 2010. 2010 decision making consensus sub-group kinship affiliation agent-based model In social animals, the way individuals interact with their conspecifics can depend on ecological factors. Predation pressure and food searching efficiency seem to favour the aggregation...

... diet. * These authors contributed equally to this work † Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 15 12 2009 © 2010. 2010 behavioral choice behavioral hierarchy leech evolution decision making Over the past several decades the organization and function...