Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

This study identifies adipokinetic hormone (AKH) in Aedes aegypti seminal fluid as a contributor to long-term insemination refractoriness in females.

This paper develops a dual-channel whole-brain imaging system for Drosophila to simultaneously measure calcium and dopamine dynamics during walking, revealing distinct functional maps in specific brain regions.

The paper identifies a constrained inhibitory subnetwork in Drosophila olfactory system and shows serotonin differentially affects its components to adjust network computations.

The paper reports fluorescent reporter expression of 31 fat body Gal4 transgenic lines in Drosophila melanogaster across tissues and sexes, highlighting expression differences and previously unreported tissue expression.

The paper uses proximity labeling to study D1-like dopamine receptors in Drosophila, identifying trafficking proteins that regulate DA-mediated behaviors.

The paper compares the evolutionary changes in the central complex and mushroom bodies across Heliconiini butterflies, finding conservation in the central complex and expansion in the mushroom bodies linked to foraging behavior.

The paper identifies multi-timescale motor dynamics in C. elegans head exploratory behavior using variational mode decomposition and neuronal ablation, revealing roles of specific motor neurons in locomotion.

This paper introduces vSPIM, a high-speed intravital imaging technique, and uses it to discover asymmetric serotonin-dependent post-shock activity in Drosophila brains.

This study introduces Peb2les, a granular arena, to study C. elegans behavioural plasticity in dynamic environments, finding touch-seeking behaviours and terrain modification.

The paper develops MyoRec, a machine learning framework to automate EMG analysis in Rhodnius prolixus, revealing feeding dynamics under appetitive and aversive conditions.

The paper investigates how dopamine receptors in the Drosophila mushroom body regulate social spacing, finding distinct effects based on receptor type, sex, and brain region.

The paper identifies Resilin distribution in insect legs across 29 species using a microscopic intensity subtraction method, revealing diverse patterns with no common incidence across all species.

This study shows that dauer-specific gap junction rewiring in nematodes alters nociceptive behavior by enabling transient activity dynamics and shorter avoidance durations.

The paper uses a data-constrained RNN model to uncover two distinct circuit mechanisms for olfactory OFF responses in locust antennal lobe neurons.

This study identifies GABAergic feedback neurons C2 and C3 as critical for direction selectivity in Drosophila motion detection circuits.

The paper compares olfactory coding in three drosophilid species to assess conservation of peripheral detection and behavioral valence across evolutionary divergent subgenera.

This study identifies DmTMEM16O as an arthropod-specific protein that accelerates olfactory response termination in Drosophila by increasing membrane conductance during the decay phase.

The paper compares brain region volumes across castes in two ant species to show how sensory demands shape neural architecture.

The paper investigates sexual dimorphism in sensorimotor transformation of optic flow in hoverflies, finding dimorphic neural responses but monomorphic behavioral output.

This study shows that Drosophila can learn to push objects without explicit reward, revealing neural circuits involved in affordance learning.

This study identifies ANIDRA as a Drosophila amino acid transporter that regulates sleep by modulating mTOR activity in glia and affecting arousal-promoting neurons.

This study tests bottom-up cuing effects on target detection and discrimination in bumblebees using adapted primate paradigms, finding no effect of prior cues.

This study investigates how Bicyclus anynana butterfly larvae transmit odour preferences to their offspring through haemolymph injections of isoamyl acetate (IAA), finding that IAA affects learning but not intergenerational inheritance.

The paper identifies two neuropeptides, sNPF and RYamide, that promote blood feeding in mated Anopheles stephensi females, with sNPF expression linked to blood-hunger states.

The paper shows how thermosensory neurons in C. elegans use gain modulation based on experience to encode temperature changes relevant for navigation.

Autobehaver is an AI pipeline for analyzing Drosophila behavior using video data, identifying key features and classifying behavioral states through a Transformer and XGBoost models.

This study shows house crickets exhibit flexible, targeted grooming after noxious heat, suggesting pain-like states in insects.

This study shows Drosophila larvae adjust foraging behavior based on resource quality, valence, and prior experience, using a simple integration model.

This study identifies corazonin signaling as critical for post-mating responses in female brown planthoppers and Drosophila, showing its role in modulating behavior and physiology.

This study identifies an amino acid reabsorption mechanism in Drosophila Malpighian tubules that maintains systemic amino acid homeostasis despite their primary role in secretion.