...-specific song recognition can be altered in very young songbirds before the sensitive period of vocal production learning. Auditory perception Critical period Electrophysiology Plasticity Songbird Species recognition National Institutes of Health R01NS082179 University...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2023 Summary: Hearing abilities differ between shark species, mainly with respect to bandwidth rather than sensitivity, with benthopelagic sharks exploiting higher frequencies than bottom-dwelling sharks. Elasmobranchs Hearing sensitivity Electrophysiology New...

..., highlighting the importance of bilateral visual integration in generating location-invariant escape responses. Bilateral integration Electrophysiology Visual feature integration Visual system Descending neuron Sensorimotor National Science Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001...

... accompanied swallowing behavior. Using immunohistochemistry, intracellular electrophysiology and extracellular nerve stimulation, we show that a member of the invGnRH/CRZ family of neuropeptides could be the signal that contextually switches the multifunctional buccal CPG to a biphasic rasping rhythm...

.... Summary: Design of a versatile visual stimulation device for presenting moving patterns of polarised light, and demonstration of its use to characterise polarisation sensitivity in butterfly photoreceptors and blowfly motion-sensitive interneurons. Electrophysiology Neuroethology Neuroscience...

... no competing or financial interests. © 2022. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2022 Summary: Studies combining electrophysiology and RNAseq provide new insights into the roles of voltage-gated, ligand-gated and mechanosensitive ion channels in switching between epithelial ion secretion...

... electrophysiology. The reduced signal reception would translate into reduced activation of the olfactory bulb neurons, which are responsible for processing olfactory information in the brain. Over longer exposures of days to weeks, changes in gene expression in the olfactory receptors and olfactory bulb neurons...

... polarized visual information might be processed separately. Electrophysiology Stomatopod Polarization vision Lamina Visual neuropil Many animals, particularly invertebrates, possess photoreceptors that are sensitive to linearly polarized light (LPL; for review, see Cronin et al., 2014...

... of acclimation to similar temperatures in laboratory conditions, highlighting the importance of seasonal cues for cardiac remodelling in a eurythermal fish. Heart Action potential Electrophysiology Hypertrophy Thermal remodelling Myoxocephalus scorpio Fishes living in temperate latitudes...

... Electrophysiology Epithelial disruption Pathogen Skin sloughing Blood plasma ion measurements (Na + , Cl − , K + ) and electrophysiological measurements of the skin [TEP, amiloride-sensitive I SC (50 µmol l −1 concentration), skin resistance and percent ouabain inhibition of I SC ] between each...

... water movement help aquatic predators find their prey. In the medicinal leech, visual and mechanical information derived from surface water waves is processed by the S cell, a neuron that plays a central role in coordinating activity across the nervous system. Hirudo verbana Electrophysiology...

..., can be probed by mass spectrometry imaging, immunohistochemistry and radioimmunoassays. Functional information has been gained primarily from behavioral studies coupled with tissue-specific assays, electrophysiology, mass spectrometry and optogenetic tools. Concerning the receptors for neuropeptides...

..., which facilitates their study with electrophysiological techniques. Naturally occurring avoidance behaviors, in particular, can be easily and reliably evoked in the laboratory, enabling their neurophysiological investigation. Studies in the laboratory alone, however, can lead to a biased interpretation...

... stimuli such as herbivore-induced fig volatiles and CO 2 elicited electrophysiological responses from the ovipositors. Silver nitrate staining also revealed pores in ovipositor sensilla, indicating their olfactory nature. Insects could use volatile sensors on their ovipositors to evaluate ecologically...

... work we present here. We thank Kimberly Jameson, Matthew McHenry and Raju Metherate for generously loaning equipment for the electrophysiology rig, Willi Ribi for technical advice on visualizing tapeta, Timothy Bradley, Almut Kelber and Kentaro Arikawa for advice and encouragement, and two...

... signal transduction mechanisms to respond with effective prey capture and predator evasion behaviors. However, the sensory biology of alveolate grazers is poorly understood. Using novel techniques that combine electrophysiological measurements and high-speed videomicroscopy, we investigated the sensory...

... μmol l −1 ) did not affect opercular epithelia electrophysiology. Isolated opercular epithelia bathed in SW on the mucosal side had a transepithelial potential ( V t ) of +40.1±0.9 mV ( N =24), sufficient for passive Na + secretion (Nernst equilibrium voltage≡ E Na =+24.11 mV). Opercular epithelia from...

... program (The MathWorks, Natick, MA, USA). This interface provided an analog output to the lever system, with simultaneous acquisition of electrophysiological data. We moved the antenna following pre-programmed sinusoidal and step motions, as well as frequency and amplitude sweeps. We used two methods...

... ganglion TAG electrophysiology Nemobius sylvestris FUNDING This work is part of the research conducted within the Customized Intelligent Life Inspired Arrays (CILIA) project [FP6-IST-016039 to J.S.], funded by the European Community under the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program...

... human volunteers to assess the role of olfaction in host searching by bed bugs. By coupled gas chromatography and single sensillum recordings on all the antennal sensilla, we measured the electrophysiological response elicited by the compounds present in our human odour extracts. Only five compounds...