... to invertebrates. Yet it remains unclear whether decreased behavioral responsiveness during sleep is necessarily associated with decreased responsiveness in brain activity, especially in insects. Here, we perform long-term multichannel electrophysiology in tethered Drosophila melanogaster flies exposed...

... Electrophysiology Plasticity Songbird Species recognition National Institutes of Health R01NS082179 University of Massachusetts Amherst http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100008975 Our study provides evidence that songbirds are sensitive to species song categories prior to the sensitive...

... 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...

... reabsorption by secondary cells . J. Exp. Biol. 218 , 3206 - 3214 . 10.1242/jeb.128314 Pannabecker , T. L. , Aneshansley , D. J. and Beyenbach , K. W. ( 1992 ). Unique electrophysiological effects of dinitrophenol in Malpighian tubules . Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp...

... 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...

... for their constructive comments and insightful suggestions to the manuscript. We also acknowledge the Kenting National Park, Construction and Planning Agency Ministry of the Interior, Taiwan for permission to collect animals. Previous intracellular electrophysiological recordings in the visual system...

... 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 Amphibians are the most threatened class of vertebrates, with approximately 30% globally classified as threatened with extinction ( IUCN, 2017 ). Although anthropogenic disturbances are the main cause of amphibian declines ( Stuart et al...

... 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...

... types of photoreceptors in a mantis shrimp . Nature   339 , 137 - 140 . 10.1038/339137a0 Eguchi , E. , Watanabe , K. , Hariyama , T. and Yamamoto , K. ( 1982 ). A comparison of electrophysiologically determined spectral responses in 35 species of Lepidoptera . J. Insect...

... 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...

... of Biologists Ltd 2014 Lepidoptera Antennae Mechanosensors Johnston's organ Scolopidia Electrophysiology Flight Flying insects rely on both visual and mechanosensory information during fast aerial maneuvers. Although combined input from both of these modalities is necessary for flight, each...

... of responses to natural ambient noise by the giant interneurons. Moreover, this is the first demonstration in the field, with natural ambient air current background, of the electrophysiological low signal-to-noise discrimination ability, which was also shown in the laboratory in cockroaches by Plummer...