... instead of dispersing them. Feeding behaviour Nutrient Parasite Mutualism Fig-eating bat Around 550 plant species in the Neotropics have so far been found to depend on bats as seed dispersers ( Lobova et al., 2009 ). In this mutualistic relationship, bats obtain nutrients from fruits...

... The authors declare no competing financial interests. 13 5 2014 20 6 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Feeding behaviour Motivation Progressive ratio Running wheel Voluntary exercise Traditionally, experiments in exercise physiology have been...

... places on Earth . Mar. Technol. Soc. J.   43 , 151 - 160 . Jamieson   A. J. , Fujii   T. , Solan   M. , Matsumoto   A. K. , Bagley   P. M. , Priede   I. G. ( 2009c ). Liparid and macrourid fishes of the hadal zone: in situ observations of activity and feeding behaviour . Proc...

... for correspondence ( anna.balkenius@ltj.slu.se ) 12 8 2010 © 2010. 2010 feeding behaviour hawkmoth high-speed tracking olfaction vision The advantages of multisensory processing are well established, and its use is ubiquitous in the natural ecology of animals. For many insects, the two...

... positively correlated. We conclude that the tarsal gustatory sensilla play an essential role in perceiving sugars available in floral nectar and provide chemosensory information determining feeding behaviour. Tarsal taste-receptor-neuron responses to lysine are implicated in oviposition behaviour...

... inhibited the response of the receiver insects to both signals but this was not observed after the injection of saline solution or of haemolymph from non-fed insects. This is the first time that the modulation of feeding behaviour by the feeding status has been analysed in a hemimetabolous blood-sucking...

.... We conclude that distal rhynchokinesis is a mechanism that could contribute to the flexible feeding behaviour of long-distance migratory shorebirds,enhancing small prey profitability and so improving foraging efficiency, and may have played a role in the evolutionary radiation of Scolopacidae...

.... * Author for correspondence (e-mail: despland@alcor.concordia.ca ) 26 1 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 Malacosoma disstria Lepidoptera protein carbohydrate compensatory feeding nutrition feeding behaviour dietary self-selection diet breadth Many...

... 7.4 0 0 0 7.4 MC, microcystin. Analysis of videos showed that all six individuals tested per given diet showed the same feeding behavioural patterns in response to that diet. When fed the non-toxic diatom Asterionella formosa , all mussels behaved`normally' with expulsion...

...Sander W. S. Gussekloo; Ron G. Bout SUMMARY Cranial kinesis is an important feature in avian feeding behaviour and involves the transmission of quadrate movement to the upper bill by the Pterygoid–Palatinum Complex (PPC). The PPC in Palaeognathae is remarkably different from that found...

... midgut feeding behaviour diet nutritional balance The midgut wall of insects is mainly comprised of a columnar epithelium surrounded by visceral striated muscle fibres. The main cell type of the epithelium is the enterocyte, which has absorptive and secretory functions. The existence...

...Yukinori Mukai; Hiromasa Yoshikawa; Hiroshi Kobayashi ABSTRACT Free mechanosensory neuromasts of larval fishes have been described as playing a complementary role to vision in feeding behaviour ( Disler, 1971 ; Iwai, 1972 a , b ). In certain species or under limited conditions, free neuromasts play...

... codes discussed in the literature. 11 1 1991 © 1991 by Company of Biologists 1991 Leptinotarsa Colorado beetle gustation gustatory coding feeding behaviour host niant selection host plant recognition taste The sense of taste can be pivotal in host recognition...

.... The changes in water content of the body resulting from a water-rich meal could contribute significantly to the normal post-meal rises in tarsal thresholds. 22 8 1988 © 1989 by Company of Biologists 1989 Phormia regina feeding behaviour blowfly thirst tarsal threshold...

... by Company of Biologists 1989 motor pattern muscle salamanders feeding behaviour The physiological basis of variation in the behaviour of an individual animal is variation in the pattern of muscle activity used to produce the behaviour. If a mammal, for example, exhibits two types...

... in receptor sensitivity on feeding behaviour and the relative roles of blood osmolality and free amino acid content are discussed. Locusts were reared at the Department of Zoology, Oxford, in the standard manner ( Hunter-Jones, 1961 ), using seedling wheat as the green food source. Males were removed...

... Phormia regina blowfly feeding behaviour recurrent nerve labellar taste threshold tarsal taste threshold Adult black blowflies Phormia regina first detect food by means of contact chemoreceptors in the tips of their tarsal hairs ( Wolbarsht & Dethier, 1958 ; McCutchan, 1969...

... of the flies. It appears, however, that other factors, in addition to the recurrent nerve, affect taste threshold after feeding. 20 08 1986 © 1987 by Company of Biologists 1987 Phormia regina feeding behaviour blowfly food intake recurrent nerve Adult blowflies detect food...

... this endogenous effector (cAMP) and extrinsic activators of the motor programme has not been established. 23 01 1984 © 1984 by Company of Biologists 1984 Bursting neurones cAMP Ca-activated phosphodiesterase feeding behaviour intracellular pH leurobranchaea I report here...