behavior
- Polarized light sensitivity in Pieris rapae is dependent on both color and intensity
Editor's choice: Pieris rapae females process and interpret polarization reflections dependent on both their color and intensity and in ways different from other polarization-sensitive taxa.
- Oxygen consumption of drift-feeding rainbow trout: the energetic tradeoff between locomotion and feeding in flow
Editors' Choice: Drift-feeding rainbow trout choose between swimming and refuging depending on the cost and success rate of prey capture across flow velocities.
- Environmental estrogen exposure disrupts sensory processing and nociceptive plasticity in the cephalopod Euprymna scolopes
Summary: In squid, exposure to water-borne environmental estrogens during development and throughout the juvenile period alters sensory processing and impairs appropriate behavioral responses to injury.
- Utilizing the blind cavefish Astyanax mexicanus to understand the genetic basis of behavioral evolution
Summary: Astyanax mexicanus is an excellent model system for examining the genetic basis of complex traits. This Review discusses how gene editing tools can be used to further understand how behaviors evolve.
- How to turn an organism into a model organism in 10 ‘easy’ steps
Summary: Drawing on our own experience over the past decade with the Aedes aegypti mosquito, we present a series of steps that scientists can take to make non-model species tractable for mechanistic genetic investigation.
- A low-cost, open-source inertial movement GPS logger for eco-physiology applications
Summary: Description of the Tapered Wings Logger (TWLogger), a new, low-cost, open-source, archival bio-logger that records high-resolution (e.g. 50 Hz) tri-axial accelerometry and magnetometry, temperature and GPS.
- Color discrimination thresholds in a cichlid fish: Metriaclima benetos
Summary: Color discrimination thresholds of cichlids can be obtained through visually mediated tasks, enabling investigation of the role of vision in cichlid ecology, sexual selection and speciation.
- Feedback to the future: motor neuron contributions to central pattern generator function
Summary: Motor neurons relay signals from the brain and spinal cord to muscles that perform behaviors. However, studies across phyla indicate that motor neurons also contribute to the function of pattern-generating circuits.
- Acetoin is a key odor for resource location in the giant robber crab Birgus latro
Summary: Birgus latro is the biggest land-living crab – a solitary animal that sometimes accumulates at food sources. A single food odor, acetoin, is sufficient to govern this behavior.
- Anthropogenic noise and the bioacoustics of terrestrial invertebrates
Summary: We review the current literature on invertebrate bioacoustics and characteristics of anthropogenic noise to suggest a framework for understanding the potential impact of anthropogenic noise on terrestrial invertebrates.