... 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...

... Air Force Research Laboratory http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100006602 Electrophysiology Neuroethology Neuroscience Polarisation vision Summary: Design of a versatile visual stimulation device for presenting moving patterns of polarised light, and demonstration of its use...

... no competing or financial interests. © 2022. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2022 Summary: Studies combining electrophysiology and RNAseq provide new insights into the roles of voltage-gated, ligand-gated and mechanosensitive ion channels in switching between epithelial ion secretion...

... 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...

... polarized visual information might be processed separately. Electrophysiology Stomatopod Polarization vision Lamina Visual neuropil Many animals, particularly invertebrates, possess photoreceptors that are sensitive to linearly polarized light (LPL; for review, see Cronin et al., 2014...

..., 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 experience both acute and chronic fluctuations in their thermal...

... 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...

... of data from multiple cameras as well as electrophysiology . J. Open Res. Software   5 , 23 . Wagenaar , D. A. and Stowasser , A. ( 2016 ). Visual responses of the S-cell system of the leech Hirudo verbana suggest complex integration mechanisms. In Society for Neuroscience, 46th annual...

..., 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...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2016 Summary: Female Heliconius erato butterflies have two UV-sensitive photoreceptors, but males only have one, and both sexes have a red-sensitive photoreceptor. Rhodopsin Opsin Electrophysiology Nymphalidae Insect Color vision As vision incurs...

... 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...

... ganglion TAG electrophysiology Nemobius sylvestris Background noise is always present in natural environments, and this noise is usually viewed as detrimental to signal detection. Many sources of air movement are present in the natural environment of crickets. Atmospheric air current, singing...

... human volunteers to assess the role of olfaction in host searching by bed bugs. By coupled gas chromatography and single sensillum recordings on all the antennal sensilla, we measured the electrophysiological response elicited by the compounds present in our human odour extracts. Only five compounds...

... Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA * Author for correspondence ( ssecor@biology.as.ua.edu ) 12 10 2011 © 2012. 2012 digestion electrophysiology gastric acid intestinal base Nerodia rhombifer postprandial Python molurus reptile snake specific...