behavioral assay

This study shows that C. elegans hermaphrodites avoid males when they have self-sperm, but this avoidance decreases after mating or when self-sperm are depleted.

This study compares the gustatory responses of honey bee castes to sucrose and royal jelly using the proboscis extension response assay, revealing caste-specific nutritional preferences.

This study shows corncob bedding reduces pup production and alters male sexual development in mice, with effects dependent on exposure timing.

The paper examines how social integration in temporal multiplex networks predicts offspring survival in female spider monkeys, finding positive links between social integration and offspring survival.

This study shows red light reduces ALAN-induced memory impairment in clownfish, demonstrating wavelength-dependent cognitive effects of artificial light at night.

This study shows that maternal diet affects offspring personality traits like activity and boldness in predatory mites, with pollen-fed mothers producing shier offspring and spider mite-fed mothers producing more active ones.

The paper introduces VLADISLAV, a robust home cage monitoring system for rats, which significantly reduces data loss and improves reliability in Alzheimer's disease research.

This study shows that recent breeding experience improves egg ejection behavior in barn swallows, suggesting awareness of own egg-laying is key, not a template image.

This study tracks anxious temperament development in nonhuman primates over their first year, finding linear increases and stable individual differences in threat-related behaviors and cortisol levels.

This study uses GPS-accelerometry data to classify behaviors in storm-petrels, finding improved detection of resting behavior compared to GPS-only methods.

This study shows that string-pulling behavior spreads between bumblebee colonies under open diffusion conditions and persists over time.

Perinatal exposure of mice to a Pb, As, Cd and Cr(VI) mixture at EPA levels impaired recognition memory, raised anxiety-like behavior, and altered mPFC neuron function.

This study evaluates motor deficits in McGill-R-Thy1-APP rats, finding genotype and sex effects on motor behavior but not on spontaneous alternation.

This study examines whether Tonkean macaques and brown capuchins can evaluate others' skilfulness by observing human actors opening food containers, finding they use social information about skill in their decisions.

This study shows that dietary ethanol affects feeding behavior, flight performance, and mating success in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana.

This study examines how unflavored and vanilla-flavored e-liquids affect nicotine intake and withdrawal in rats, finding vanilla flavor is reinforcing but does not enhance nicotine consumption or withdrawal severity.

This study shows that social instability increases aggression but does not affect response inhibition in chickens.

This study tests if oral CBD reduces opioid withdrawal symptoms in rats, finding no significant effect on physical or anxiety-like withdrawal symptoms.

This study shows that CBD reduces oxycodone self-administration in rats with neuropathic pain without diminishing oxycodone's pain-relieving effects.

The paper introduces a new group-based operant task for mice, showing that repeated use leads to shifts in workload toward subordinates and rank consolidation.

This study examines the ontogenic shift in the use of a symbolic wing-fluttering gesture in great tits, showing it functions to prompt mates to feed nestlings in adults and parents to feed fledglings.

This study shows leptin increases song effort in male Alston's singing mice when social context is stimulating, and affects vocal amplitude but not rate.

This study shows macaques use information-seeking as part of their foraging strategy in ambiguous terrains, with individual differences in preference for information, reward, or proximity.

This study shows mice adapt their behavioral strategies when transitioning from home-cage to head-fixed task performance, revealing context-dependent changes in behavior and strategy.

This study uses deep learning to analyze mosquito behavior changes after infection, finding species-specific effects that could impact disease transmission.

This study examines nest attendance coordination in Streaked Shearwaters, finding that higher coordination reduces extended nest absences but not chick growth rates, with provisioning frequency and meal size being more critical for chick development.

This study shows prenatal anti-oxidant treatment reduces maternal immune activation-induced increases in alcohol self-administration, with effects seen primarily in male offspring.

This study quantifies the non-linear age-trajectory of mother-infant relationships in wild Assamese macaques, finding no sex differences and a transition to independence by mid-infancy.

This paper introduces a method to quantify approach/avoidance behavior in mice across multiple odors using information theory and demonstrates its application in fear conditioning experiments.

This study shows that ovulation is essential for female sexual receptivity in medaka, and progesterone signaling in specific brain regions synchronizes sexual behavior with the ovulatory cycle.