Sweet taste receptors play roles in artificial sweetener-induced enhanced urine output in mice by Shuangfeng Cai, Ningning Xie, Ling Zheng, Quan Li, Siyu Zhang, Qinghua Huang, Wei Luo, Mei Wu, Yidan Wang, Yilun Du, Shao-ping Deng, Lei Cai

“…In this study, we investigated the relationship between urinary excretion and the sweet taste receptor expression in mice after three artificial sweeteners exposure in a higher or lower concentration via animal behavioral studies, western blotting, and real-time quantitative PCR experiment in rodent model. …”
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The repertoire of olfactory C family G protein-coupled receptors in zebrafish: candidate chemosensory receptors for amino acids by Ngai John, Alioto Tyler S

“…These receptor families are thought to receive chemosensory information from a wide spectrum of odorant and pheromonal cues that influence critical animal behaviors such as feeding, reproduction and other social interactions.…”
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Wildlife Mortality on National Highway 72 and 74 Across Rajaji National Park, North India by Ritesh JOSHI, Alok DIXIT

“…Further studies are needed to understand the ecological impacts of increasing vehicle traffic on various national highways and roads and on animal behavioral responses, in order to take proper conservation actions…”
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The effects of tail biopsy for genotyping on behavioral responses to nociceptive stimuli. by Maria Elena P Morales, Robert W Gereau

“…In all tests performed (von Frey, Hargreaves, modified Randall Selitto, and formalin), C57BL/6J tail-biopsied animals' behavioral responses were not significantly different from control animals. …”
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Exposure to N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea in adult mice alters structural and functional integrity of neurogenic sites. by Vivian Capilla-Gonzalez, Sara Gil-Perotin, Antonio Ferragud, Luis Bonet-Ponce, Juan Jose Canales, Jose Manuel Garcia-Verdugo

“…After bromodeoxyuridine injections, an S-phase exogenous marker, the immunohistochemical analysis revealed a deficit in proliferation and a decreased recruitment of newly generated cells in neurogenic areas of ENU-treated animals. Behavioral effects were also detected after ENU-exposure, observing impairment in odor discrimination task (habituation-dishabituation test) and a deficit in spatial memory (Barnes maze performance), two functions primarily related to the SVZ and the DG regions, respectively.…”
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An exploratory study of behavioral traits and the establishment of social relationships in female laboratory rats. by Shiomi Hakataya, Noriko Katsu, Kazuo Okanoya, Genta Toya

“…Clarifying individual differences in social interaction patterns and determinants for such differences will lead to better understanding of sociality and its fitness consequences for animals. Behavioral traits are considered one of the determining factors of social interaction. …”
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Dual reward prediction components yield Pavlovian sign- and goal-tracking. by Sivaramakrishnan Kaveri, Hiroyuki Nakahara

“…Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant paradigm for understanding animal behaviors and neural correlates of decision-making, in part because of its ability to explain Pavlovian conditioned behaviors and the role of midbrain dopamine activity as reward prediction error (RPE). …”
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The precision of single neuron responses in cortical area V1 during stereoscopic depth judgments. by Prince, S, Pointon, A, Cumming, BG, Parker, A

“…Average neuronal thresholds were approximately 4x poorer than these behavioral thresholds, although the best neurons were marginally better than the animals' behavior. Thus, the well known precision of relative depth judgments can be supported with signals from a small number of V1 neurons. …”

Enhancing reinforcement learning models by including direct and indirect pathways improves performance on striatal dependent tasks. by Kim T Blackwell, Kenji Doya

“…These results suggest that including additional aspects of basal ganglia physiology can improve the performance of reinforcement learning models, better reproduce animal behaviors, and provide insight as to the role of direct- and indirect-pathway striatal neurons.…”
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Differential Effects of Roads and Traffic on Space Use and Movements of Native Forest-Dependent and Introduced Edge-Tolerant Species. by Hsiang Ling Chen, John L Koprowski

“…Anthropogenic infrastructure such as roads and non-native species are major causes of species endangerment. Understanding animal behavioral responses to roads and traffic provides insight into causes and mechanisms of effects of linear development on wildlife and aids effective mitigation and conservation. …”
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Synaptic plasticity can produce and enhance direction selectivity. by Sean Carver, Eatai Roth, Noah J Cowan, Eric S Fortune

“…The discrimination of the direction of movement of sensory images is critical to the control of many animal behaviors. We propose a parsimonious model of motion processing that generates direction selective responses using short-term synaptic depression and can reproduce salient features of direction selectivity found in a population of neurons in the midbrain of the weakly electric fish Eigenmannia virescens. …”
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An assistive computer vision tool to automatically detect changes in fish behavior in response to ambient odor by Sreya Banerjee, Lauren Alvey, Paula Brown, Sophie Yue, Lei Li, Walter J. Scheirer

“…The overall objective of this work is to create a generalized tool to predict animal behaviors from videos using state-of-the-art deep learning models, with the dual goal of advancing understanding in biology and engineering a more robust and powerful artificial information processing system for biologists.…”
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mTh1 driven expression of hTDP-43 results in typical ALS/FTLD neuropathological symptoms. by Barbara Scherz, Roland Rabl, Stefanie Flunkert, Siegfried Rohler, Joerg Neddens, Nicole Taub, Magdalena Temmel, Ute Panzenboeck, Vera Niederkofler, Robert Zimmermann, Birgit Hutter-Paier

“…Additionally, we detected insoluble TDP-43 in the cortex, motoneuron loss, and increased neuroinflammation in the central nervous system of TAR6/6 animals. Behavioral analyses revealed early motor deficits in the clasping- and wire suspension test as well as decreased anxiety in the elevated plus maze. …”
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Comparison of GCaMP3 and GCaMP6f for studying astrocyte Ca2+ dynamics in the awake mouse brain. by Liang Ye, Mateen A Haroon, Angelica Salinas, Martin Paukert

“…Although not electrically excitable, astrocytes exhibit diverse Ca2+ dynamics across spatial and temporal scales, more or less dependent on the animal's behavioral state. Ca2+ dynamics range from global elevations lasting multiple seconds encompassing the soma up to the finest processes, to short elevations restricted to so-called microdomains within fine processes. …”
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Formation of the Paths by Hunting Fauna Near the Sdditional Feeding Sites on the Hunting Territories of the Left Bank Forest Steppe of Ukraine by V.V. Goroshko

“…The conclusions suggest that, formation of the paths near the additional feeding sites depends on the animals' behavior, which is stipulated by the edatop features, namely the composition of the forest-stand, undergrowth and underbrush, their density, thickness, etc., different influence of snow cover and ice crust on the forest-stand. …”
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Cross-species affective neuroscience decoding of the primal affective experiences of humans and related animals. by Jaak Panksepp

“…BACKGROUND: The issue of whether other animals have internally felt experiences has vexed animal behavioral science since its inception. Although most investigators remain agnostic on such contentious issues, there is now abundant experimental evidence indicating that all mammals have negatively and positively-valenced emotional networks concentrated in homologous brain regions that mediate affective experiences when animals are emotionally aroused. …”
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Automatically Identifying Sickness Behavior in Grazing Lambs with an Acceleration Sensor by Bowen Fan, Racheal H. Bryant, Andrew W. Greer

“…Relatively recent advances in accelerometer technology have resulted in commercial products, which can be used to remotely detect changes in animals’ behavior, the pattern and extent of which may provide an indicator of disease challenge and animal health status. …”
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Climate and weather impact timing of emergence of bats. by Winifred F Frick, Phillip M Stepanian, Jeffrey F Kelly, Kenneth W Howard, Charles M Kuster, Thomas H Kunz, Phillip B Chilson

“…One difficulty in determining animal response to climate variation is lack of long-term datasets that record animal behaviors over decadal scales. We used radar observations from the national NEXRAD network of Doppler weather radars to measure how group behavior in a colonially-roosting bat species responded to annual variation in climate and daily variation in weather over the past 11 years. …”
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Changes in hibernating tricolored bat (Perimyotis subflavus) roosting behavior in response to white‐nose syndrome by Susan C. Loeb, Eric A. Winters

“…Abstract Understanding animals' behavioral and physiological responses to pathogenic diseases is critical for management and conservation. …”
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Structure and dynamics of minke whale surfacing patterns in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. by Fredrik Christiansen, Ned M Lynas, David Lusseau, Ursula Tscherter

“…Animal behavioral patterns can help us understand physiological and ecological constraints on animals and its influence on fitness. …”
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