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Cover: Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are famous for long-distance migratory flights, where innate color preferences, perception and learning in the context of feeding may be crucial for survival, yet have rarely been explored. Blackiston, Briscoe and Weiss show (pp. 509−520) that monarchs are flexible and proficient learners of new colors, quickly overcoming innate preferences, although they display confusion of colors related to brightness. They also show that monarch eyes contain heterogeneously distributed lateral filter pigments which, together with a green-sensitive visual pigment, permit discrimination of yellow and orange colors, like those found on the milkweed flower (background image). Photograph by Ed Chang. 2 2 - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
New funding schemes for junior faculty staff
In celebration of our 100th anniversary, JEB has launched two new grants to support junior faculty staff working in animal comparative physiology and biomechanics who are within five years of setting up their first lab/research group. Check out our ECR Visiting Fellowships and Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants.
JEB@100: an interview with Monitoring Editor Stuart Egginton
Stuart Egginton reveals how he overcame the challenges of being a comparative physiologist in a medical school and how he would tell his younger self to trust his instincts when pursuing new ideas.
Travelling Fellowships from JEB
Our Travelling Fellowships offer up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Next deadline to apply is 27 October 2023
Feedforward and feedback control in the neuromechanics
Auke J. Ijspeert and Monica A. Daley provide an overview of key knowledge gained from comparative vertebrate experiments and insights obtained from neuromechanical simulations and robotic approaches. Read the full Centenary Review Article here.
Light fine-tunes electric fish pulses to keep them in the shade
Weakly electric fish perceive their surroundings through electric chirrups and now Ana Camargo & colleagues have revealed that light fine-tunes the fish's electric pulses to ensure that they remain scheduled beneath the mats of vegetation they use for shelter, avoiding penetrating beams of light that could give them away.
