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The SnackerTracker: A novel home-cage monitoring device for measuring food-intake and food-seeking behaviour in mice [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
Wellcome Open ResearchBackground Accurately measuring activity and feeding is important in laboratory animal research, whether for welfare-monitoring or experimental recording.
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy +8 more
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Sensing Magnetic Directions in Birds: Radical Pair Processes Involving Cryptochrome [PDF]
Biosensors, 2014 Birds can use the geomagnetic field for compass orientation. Behavioral experiments, mostly with migrating passerines, revealed three characteristics of the avian magnetic compass: (1) it works spontaneously only in a narrow functional window around the ...
Roswitha Wiltschko, Wolfgang Wiltschko
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The Magnetic Compass of Birds: The Role of Cryptochrome
Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 The geomagnetic field provides directional information for birds. The avian magnetic compass is an inclination compass that uses not the polarity of the magnetic field but the axial course of the field lines and their inclination in space.
Roswitha Wiltschko +2 more
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MAGNETORECEPTION IN FRUIT FLIES, BEES AND ANTS [PDF]
Acta Scientifica Malaysia, 2022 Few insects have the sensory ability to sense and use the earth’s magnetic field. Studies have revealed a wealth of information on the magnetic sense of some insects.
Fatik Baran Mandal, Bikash Chakroborty
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Light exposure during development affects physiology of adults in Drosophila melanogaster
Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Light is one of most important factors synchronizing organisms to day/night cycles in the environment. In Drosophila it is received through compound eyes, Hofbauer-Buchner eyelet, ocelli, using phospholipase C-dependent phototransduction and by deep ...
Milena Damulewicz +2 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 Nocturnal Anopheles mosquitoes exhibit strong behavioral avoidance to blue-light while diurnal Aedes mosquitoes are behaviorally attracted to blue-light and a wide range of other wavelengths of light. To determine the molecular mechanism of these effects,
David D. Au +9 more
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Direct Interaction of Avian Cryptochrome 4 with a Cone Specific G-Protein
Cells, 2022 Background: Night-migratory birds sense the Earth’s magnetic field by an unknown molecular mechanism. Theoretical and experimental evidence support the hypothesis that the light-induced formation of a radical-pair in European robin cryptochrome 4a ...
Katharina Görtemaker +11 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Cryptochrome (CRY) is a conserved protein associated with the circadian clock in a broad range of organisms, including plants, insects, and mammals. In Drosophila, cry is a pleiotropic gene that encodes a blue light-dedicated circadian photoreceptor, as ...
Mirko Pegoraro +5 more
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Drosophila photoreceptor systems converge in arousal neurons and confer light responsive robustness
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 Lateral ventral neurons (LNvs) in the fly circadian neural circuit mediate behaviors other than clock resetting, including light-activated acute arousal. Converging sensory inputs often confer functional redundancy.
David D. Au +7 more
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Cryptochrome-mediated blue-light signal contributes to carotenoids biosynthesis in microalgae
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Microalgae are considered as ideal cell factories for producing natural carotenoids which display favorable biological activities. As the most important abiotic factor, light not only provides energy for photosynthetic metabolism, but also regulates ...
Zhongyi Zhang +4 more
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