behavioral assay

The paper examines how social isolation interacts with a genetic mutation to intensify both externalizing and internalizing behaviors in zebrafish.

This paper models individual differences in risk-sensitive exploration using a Bayes adaptive Markov decision process model applied to animal behavior data.

This study examines short-term social isolation effects on vocal and non-vocal social behaviors in prairie voles, finding no overall impact but sex- and context-specific changes in aggression.

The paper shows that random subsamples of animal populations can reliably reveal intrinsic social differences, highlighting the importance of accounting for sampling biases in social network analysis.

This study shows that 40 Hz flickering light improves cognition and mitochondrial function in a rat model of Alzheimer's disease.

This study examines how temperature, light, and individual variation affect feeding motivation in pike cichlids, finding no environmental effect but consistent individual differences.

The paper investigates trophic pathogen avoidance in Drosophila melanogaster and finds most lines prefer bacterial pathogens, suggesting dietary preference for protein over carbohydrate rather than pathogen avoidance.

This study assesses the effects of sleep deprivation on rodent psychomotor vigilance test performance in food-restricted rats, finding increased lapses and slower reaction times.

This study investigates the factors driving infanticide in mimic poison frogs, finding that unfamiliarity with offspring location increases infanticide and that lower testosterone levels are associated with this behavior.

This study investigates how artificial light affects Atlantic Puffin fledglings' behavior, finding that illumination increases stranding and that light attraction is not mitigated by changing light types.

This study shows that optogenetic stimulation of VTA to NAcbS projections impairs reversal learning and increases exploitation bias in rats during probabilistic reversal learning.

This study examines how intolerance of uncertainty affects behavioural flexibility in a reversal learning task, finding associations with reinforcement sensitivity and performance following reward changes.

This study examines the effects of prednisolone on behavior in DMD mouse models, finding limited improvements in anxiety but no changes in social interaction or spatial learning.

This study shows temperature affects mating rates and reproductive isolation in Drosophila species and heterospecific crosses.

The paper identifies a neural circuit in Drosophila santomea that co-opts an ancestral circuit to drive a new female sexual behavior through social feedback.

The paper investigates whether social associations between breeders and helpers in sociable weavers are linked to the help received, finding stronger foraging bonds and positive correlations between social affiliations and help provided.

This study genetically modifies zebrafish to demonstrate how altering individual traits can tune collective behavior, showing mutant fish exhibit more orderly motion than wildtype.

This study tests personality and behavioral syndromes in two fruit bat species, finding high individual repeatability but different syndrome structures between them.

This study compares navigation behaviors in 15 ant species, finding that olfactory navigation is dominant, path integration is limited to arboreal ants, and view-based navigation is influenced by body size and eye size.

This study shows curcumin reduces arsenic trioxide-induced behavioral, oxidative, and morphological damage in mice striatal regions.

This study investigates how Australian desert ants learn and navigate during colony relocation, finding that relearning walks at both old and new nests are critical for successful relocation and foraging.

The paper examines how BaYaka mothers balance childcare and foraging tasks in Congo Basin, finding that infant presence does not limit travel distance or food returns but increases group foraging efficiency.

This study examines bird species composition in rice plantations at different harvesting stages and evaluates the impact of surrounding vegetation on avian abundance in Weppa Farm, Nigeria.

This study shows that experienced Melophorus bagoti ants dump waste more efficiently and with spatial fidelity compared to naive ants, suggesting learning improves waste disposal and navigation.

This study shows that weakly electric fish adjust their movement and sensory processing based on illumination levels, switching between active sensing and multisensory reweighting near a critical threshold.

This study evaluates a prison-based dog training program, finding improved dog behavior and no negative welfare impacts.

This study shows that a ketogenic diet improves vocal communication in BTBR mice, a model of autism, by enhancing ultrasonic vocalization parameters in both juvenile and adult mice.

The paper uses computational methods to analyze mouse behavior and identifies a bait-and-switch escape strategy that reduces social conflict.

The paper tests Eurasian jays' ability to reason by exclusion using modified 2-cups tasks and finds they succeed, supporting a link between caching behavior and exclusion reasoning.

This study shows that a single dose of psilocybin or psychedelic mushroom extract reduces excessive self-grooming in SAPAP3 KO mice, with effects lasting up to 7 weeks.