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Assessing the Behavior of Lab Animals
Amber Dance | Nov 1, 2016 | 8 min read
Advances in cage design and monitoring software allow the collection of more realistic data.
Illuminating Behaviors
Douglas Steinberg | Jun 1, 2003 | 6 min read
Courtesy of Genevieve Anderson If not for Nobel laureates Thomas Hunt Morgan, Eric R. Kandel, and Sydney Brenner, the notion of a general behavioral model might seem odd. Behaviors, after all, are determined by an animal's evolutionary history and ecological niche. They are often idiosyncratic, shared in detail only by closely related species. But, thanks to Morgan's research in the early 20th century, and Kandel's and Brenner's work over the past 35 years, the fly Drosophila melanogaster, t
Behavior Brief
Catherine Offord | Feb 11, 2016 | 5 min read
A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research
Glia Help Regulate Circadian Behaviors
Diana Kwon | Mar 23, 2017 | 4 min read
Scientists confirm that astrocytes are involved in regulating molecular and behavioral circadian rhythms in mice. 
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The Inside Guide: The Gut Microbiome’s Role in Host Evolution
Catherine Offord | Jul 1, 2021 | 10+ min read
Bacteria that live in the digestive tracts of animals may influence the adaptive trajectories of their hosts.
Fatty Pheromones
Rina Shaikh-Lesko | Jul 1, 2014 | 2 min read
A new class of pheromones, triacylglycerides, helps male fruit flies mark their mates to deter rivals.
The Genetics of Society
Claire Asher and Seirian Sumner | Jan 1, 2015 | 10 min read
Researchers aim to unravel the molecular mechanisms by which a single genotype gives rise to diverse castes in eusocial organisms.
Brains in Action
The Scientist | Feb 1, 2014 | 10+ min read
Neuroscientists are automating neural imaging and recording, allowing them to monitor increasingly large swaths of the brain in living, behaving animals.
 
The Scientist Staff | Mar 28, 2024

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