Ant physiology has been fashioned by 100 million years of social evolution. Ants perform
many sophisticated social and collective behaviors yet possess nervous systems similar in …

Spiders are renowned for their efficient capture of flying insects using intricate aerial webs.
How the spider nervous systems evolved to cope with this specialized hunting strategy and …

A variety of organisms exhibit collective movement, including schooling fish and flocking
birds, where coordinated behavior emerges from the interactions between group members …

Insects and mammals have independently evolved odorant receptor genes that are
arranged in large genomic tandem arrays. In mammals, each olfactory sensory neuron …

According to Mendel's second law, chromosomes segregate randomly in meiosis. Non-
random segregation is primarily known for cases of selfish meiotic drive in females, in which …

Desert locust plagues threaten the food security of millions. Central to their formation is
crowding-induced plasticity, with social phenotypes changing from cryptic (solitarious) to …

Insect societies discriminate against foreigners to avoid exploitation. In ants, helper workers
only accept individuals with the familiar chemical cues of their colony. Similarly, unfamiliar …

Vigilance refers to being alertly watchful or paying sustained attention to avoid potential
threats. Animals in vigilance states reduce locomotion and have an enhanced sensitivity to …

The representation of odors in the locust antennal lobe with its> 2,000 glomeruli has long
remained a perplexing puzzle. We employed the CRISPR-Cas9 system to generate …

While the neural basis of age-related decline has been extensively studied, 1, 2, 3 less is
known about changes in neural function during the pre-senescent stages of adulthood. Adult …