upported by grants from the National Science Foundation of China(31500839 to C.M.and 81871121 to S.J.).
The gut microbiome is a key partner of animals,influencing various aspects of their physiology and behaviors.Among the diverse behaviors regulated by the gut microbiome,locomotion is vital for survival and reproductio...
NIH DP2(1DP2NS132373-01),a Hanna Gray Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,a Sloan Fellowship from the Alfred P.Sloan Foundation,and a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship.
Across the animal kingdom,diverse monoamines actuate and modulate neural circuit function.However,measuring the rapid dynamics of these neuromodulators at cellular resolution has historically presented significant cha...
supported by grants to Yulong Li from the National Key R&DProgram of China(2019YFE011781);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31925017 and 31871087);the NIH BRAIN Initiative(1U01NS113358 and 1U01NS120824);the Feng Foundation of Biomedical Research,the Clement and Xinxin Foundation,the Peking-TsinghuaCenter for Life Sciences,the State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology at Peking University School of Life Sciences and the New Cornerstone Science Foundation through the New Cornerstone Investigator Program and the XPLORER PRIZE.
Octopamine(OA),analogous to norepinephrine in vertebrates,is an essentialmonoamine neurotransmitter in invertebrates that plays a significant role in various biological functions,including olfactory associative learni...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32072486,31971424,and 31572314).
The biogenic amine octopamine(OA,invertebrate counterpart of nora-drenaline)plays critical roles in the regulation of olfactory behavior.Historically,OA has been thought to mediate appetitive but not aversive learning...
A morphofunctional investigation of the different neuronal subpopulations projecting through each of the nerves IV-VI emerging bilaterally from the terminal ab- dominal ganglion (TAG) was correlated with the octopam...
supported by National Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program, 2013CB945603);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31070944, 31271147, 31471063, 31671074);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LR13C090001);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (No. 2017FZA7003)
Animals always seek rewards and the related neural basis has been well studied. However, what happens when animals fail to get a reward is largely unknown,although this is commonly seen in behaviors such as predation....
Aggression is a common behavioral strategy employed by animals to secure limited resources, but must be applied with restraint to limit potential costs including injury. How animals make the adap- tive decision to fig...
Ant colonies self-organize to solve complex problems despite the simplicity of an individual ant's brain. Pavement ant Tetramorium caespitum colonies must solve the problem of defending the ter- ritory that they patr...
Burying beetles Nicrophorus orbicollis exhibit facultative biparental care of young. To reproduce, a male-female burying beetle pair bury and prepare a small vertebrate carcass as food for its altricial young. During ...
supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF);the Whitehall Foundation and the Whimey Laboratory
The purpose of this contribution is to review our current understanding of the source and biochemistry of the circadian efferent input to the eyes of the American horseshoe crab Limuluspolyphemus and the impact of thi...