supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFE0103400);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81470628 and 82471086).
The looming stimulus-evoked flight response to approaching predators is a defensive behavior in most animals. However, how looming stimuli are detected in the retina and transmitted to the brain remains unclear. Here,...
Insects are posited to be declining globally.This stark reality poses a grave threat to the delicate balance of ecosystems that depend on these creatures for pollination,decomposition,and as a vital food source.Recent...
supported by a general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31871052).
Evading or escaping from predators is one of the most crucial issues for survival across the animal kingdom.The timely detection of predators and the initiation of appropriate fight-or-flight responses are innate capa...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.12031003);the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement (No.778062 ULTRACEPT)。
The bistratified lobula giant type 1(BLG1) neuron is an identified looming-sensitive neuron in crab's visual brain that demonstrates special sensitivity to diving targets, or descending approaching motions. In this pa...
supported by the Science and Technology Innovation 2030-Major Project of Brain Science and Brain-like Research(2021ZD0202700,2021ZD0202702);the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(2019B030335001,2018B030334001);the Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82090030,82090031);the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(2019-12M-5-057);the Ministry of Science and Technology(2019YFA0110103);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81870898);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2021FZZX001-37);the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation(LR18H090002);the Young Scientist Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82001135).
Defensive behaviors induced by innate fear or Pavlovian fear conditioning are crucial for animals to avoid threats and ensure survival.The zona incerta(ZI)has been demonstrated to play important roles in fear learning...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31770253);the 111 project(No.B13008);the Beiing Advanced Innovation Program for Land Surface Science.
Flowering phenology and clonal growth are known to affect resource and pollen availability, and therefore select for adaptive or constrained sex allocation strategies to some degree. However, the consequences of tempo...
Pakistan has suffered from various infectious diseases including dengue,Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever(CCHF),polio and COVID-19 in the recent past[1,2].As per the World Health Organization reports(September 2022),609...
Pakistan has recently faced a disastrous and lethal flooding across the country,affecting 33 million people and 1400 healthcare facilities,putting further strain on the nation's fragile healthcare system.The country f...
A possible U.S. economic downturn poses challenges to the world,developing countries in particularNegative growth,abnormal yield curve,loss of confidence among businesses—Is the U.S. economy headed for a recession? M...
Several countries around the world have followed the growing number of monkeypox(MPX) cases with concern, as they are still very sensitive to fears of a new tragic pandemic, as was the case with COVID-19. This alarm h...