... and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. Tribolium castaneum Locomotion Kinematics Motor control Neuroethology Central nervous system Institute for Behavioural and Neural Sciences, University of St Andrews Undergraduate Research Assistant...

... regarding the sensory and physiological mechanisms of olfactory rhythms. Insect chronobiology Olfaction Entrainment Neuroethology Synchronization National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000060 R01AI155785 R21AI166633 USDA National...

... the physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying behavior, a key goal of neuroethology. However, there is a tradeoff when studying animal behavior and its underlying biological mechanisms: common behavior protocols in the laboratory are designed to be replicable and controlled, but they often fail to encompass...

..., with outlines for future directions in this area. Distributed vision Evolution Neuroethology Vision Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 SU 1336/1-1 The human fascination with eyes and vision stretches back thousands of years. Our own visual...

... http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004794 Ca 2+ imaging Microscopy Neuroethology Neuroscience Raspberry Pi Open source Summary: pi_tailtrack is a Raspberry Pi-based imaging system that generates high-quality behavioural tracking data of larval zebrafish during functional imaging...

... that exclude the confounding effect of pheromones show that Drosophila remember the location of an optogenetically delivered reward. Fly Neuroethology Memory Pheromones Navigation Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org...

... philosophers already recognised insects as intelligent. The more recent discovery of learning flights helps reveal how the interaction between instinctual and learnt behaviours structures this intelligence. Insect learning Insect navigation Path integration Insect brain Neuroethology Visual memories...

... neural circuits. Highlighted Article:   Acanthopleura granulata exhibits polarization sensitivity, and sensory information gathered by its distributed visual system is integrated in a decentralized visuotopic map. Neuroethology Neuroanatomy Chiton Mollusc Visual ecology Polarization...

... http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000270 NE/L002434/1 Stromboidea Conch snail Neuroethology Contrast sensitivity Visual acuity Comparative morphology Summary: Behavioural trials indicate the eyes of conch snail Conomurex luhuanus provide high-resolution spatial vision...

.... 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...

... Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 EG82/19-1 2117-422037984 Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Collision avoidance Flight control Insect flight Neuroethology Obstacle detection Spatial vision Summary: Analysis of head and thorax...

... onset of the jet. Motor control Fins Stability Temporal precision Neuroethology Archerfish use water jets to down aerial prey from considerable distances (e.g. Lüling, 1963 ; Dill, 1977 ; Elshoud and Koomen, 1985 ; Rischawy et al., 2015 ; Schuster, 2018 ). The forces transferred...

... tools to study the convergent evolution of behavior allows a better understanding of genotype–phenotype relationships and how behavior evolves and diversifies. Electric fish Poison frogs Convergent evolution CRISPR Neuroethology Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen shared...

.... Neural circuits Neuroethology Robustness Plasticity Modularity Canalization Fifty-six years ago, Tinbergen's four questions challenged the field of animal behaviour to fully integrate four distinct categories of analysis: ontogeny (development), causation (physiological mechanisms), survival...

...Donato Romano; Giovanni Benelli; Cesare Stefanini ABSTRACT The effect of previous exposure to lateral sensory stimuli in shaping the response to subsequent symmetric stimuli represents an important overlooked issue in neuroethology, with special reference to arthropods. In this research, we...

... , K. T. , Picton , L. D. and Heitler , W. J. ( 2016 ). The Neuroethology of Predation and Escape . Oxford : Wiley Blackwell . Simon , K. D. and Mazlan , A. G. ( 2010 ). Trophic position of archerfish species (Toxotes chatareus and Toxotes jaculatrix) in the Malaysian...

... reticulospinal cells. Reticulospinal system Mauthner system Feed-forward inhibition Visual response Neuroethology Within the hindbrain reticulospinal network of fish and amphibians, two identified neurons, the Mauthner cells, are notable because of their enormous size and for sending axons down...

..., and the predictive C-starts – used in hunting – are adjusted in terms of the angle of turning and the final linear speed to where and when their prey will hit the water surface. Presently, nothing is known about the neural circuits that drive the archerfish C-starts. As the starting point for a neuroethological...

... in Drosophila. Planaria Extraocular photoreception Dermal phototransduction UV-light detection TRPA1 Neuroethology The ability to detect and respond to light is a fundamental characteristic of living organisms. Ocular photoreception (or vision) is what is most commonly associated with light...

... expression analysis sheds new light on the relationship between instincts and learned behaviors and provides new insights into how the brain's reward system influences social behavior. Brain Gene expression Mushroom bodies Neuroethology Social insects Behaviors arise from both inborn...