... for neuroscience research. However, an oncoming wave of technologies applicable to many animals hold promise for enabling researchers to address challenging scientific questions that cannot be solved using traditional laboratory animals. Here, we discuss how leveraging the convergent evolution of physiological...

.../ Summary: In wrasses, jaw movements during biting are influenced by a feature on the premaxilla; labrichthyines show biting patterns distinct from those of other wrasses. Cleaning Feeding kinematics Protruded biting Convergent evolution Jaw protrusion Wrasses The ecological...

... of mechanoreceptive lateral line neuromasts and convergent evolution of sleep loss. Ablation of the lateral line enhanced sleep in the Pachón cavefish population, suggesting that heightened sensory input underlies evolutionarily derived sleep loss. Targeted lateral line ablation and behavioral analysis localized...

...David W. Murphy; Deepak Adhikari; Donald R. Webster; Jeannette Yen ABSTRACT In a remarkable example of convergent evolution, we show that the zooplanktonic sea butterfly Limacina helicina ‘flies’ underwater in the same way that very small insects fly in the air. Both sea butterflies and flying...

... of Biologists Ltd 2014 Echolocation Buzz Convergent evolution Prey capture Delphinid DTAG Echolocating bats and toothed whales emit powerful sound pulses and listen for returning echoes to navigate and capture prey under poor lighting ( Griffin et al., 1960 ; Au, 1993 ). The pulse repetition...

.... 29 7 2013 24 10 2013 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Neuromast Adaptive behavior Cupula Hydrodynamics Convergent evolution Sensory evolution The evolution of sensory systems can be crucial for an animal to adapt to a new environment...

... in nectarivorous, flying animals. * Author for correspondence ( suarez@lifesci.ucsb.edu ) 31 8 2010 © 2011. 2011 energetics fuel use muscle metabolism convergent evolution foraging thermoregulation mitochondria Metabolic fuel use during exercise is a subject of great interest...

... a sharp response boundary between the frequencies of song and bat cries, resembling categorical perception first described in the context of human speech. acoustic parasitoid categorical perception convergent evolution cricket insect hearing phonotaxis Studies of evolution in mate...