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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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Cryptochrome Interacts With Actin and Enhances Eye-Mediated Light Sensitivity of the Circadian Clock in Drosophila melanogaster [PDF]
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2018 Cryptochromes (CRYs) are a class of flavoproteins that sense blue light. In animals, CRYs are expressed in the eyes and in the clock neurons that control sleep/wake cycles and are implied in the generation and/or entrainment of circadian rhythmicity ...
Matthias Schlichting +7 more
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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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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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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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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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Night-migratory songbirds possess a magnetic compass in both eyes [PDF]
, 2012 Previous studies on European robins, Erithacus rubecula, and Australian silvereyes, Zosterops lateralis, had suggested that magnetic compass information is being processed only in the right eye and left brain hemisphere of migratory birds.
Engels, Svenja +4 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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