The connectome of an insect brain

M Winding, BD Pedigo, CL Barnes, HG Patsolic, Y Park… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Brains contain networks of interconnected neurons and so knowing the network architecture
is essential for understanding brain function. We therefore mapped the synaptic-resolution …

Neural Circuits Underlying Behavioral Flexibility: Insights From Drosophila

AV Devineni, KM Scaplen - Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Behavioral flexibility is critical to survival. Animals must adapt their behavioral responses
based on changes in the environmental context, internal state, or experience. Studies in …

Functional relationship between peripheral thermosensation and behavioral thermoregulation

T Suito, M Tominaga - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Thermoregulation is a fundamental mechanism for maintaining homeostasis in living
organisms because temperature affects essentially all biochemical and physiological …

G protein-coupled receptor-based thermosensation determines temperature acclimatization of Caenorhabditis elegans

K Ohnishi, T Sokabe, T Miura, M Tominaga… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Animals must sense and acclimatize to environmental temperatures for survival, yet their
thermosensing mechanisms other than transient receptor potential (TRP) channels remain …

[PDF][PDF] Bumblebees can detect floral humidity

MJM Harrap, N Hempel de Ibarra… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Floral humidity, a region of elevated humidity in the headspace of the flower, occurs in many
plant species and may add to their multimodal floral displays. So far, the ability to detect and …

Temperature sensitivity and temperature response across development in the Drosophila larva

A Evans, AJ Ferrer, E Fradkov, JW Shomar… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The surrounding thermal environment is highly important for the survival and fitness of
animals, and as a result most exhibit behavioral and neural responses to temperature …

Cool and warm ionotropic receptors control multiple thermotaxes in Drosophila larvae

AA Omelchenko, H Bai, EC Spina, JJ Tyrrell… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Animals are continuously confronted with different rates of temperature variation. The
mechanism underlying how temperature-sensing systems detect and respond to fast and …

Morphology and ultrastructure of external sense organs of Drosophila larvae

V Richter, A Rist, G Kislinger, M Laumann, A Schoofs… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Sensory perception is the ability through which an organism is able to process sensory
stimuli from the environment. This stimulus is transmitted from the peripheral sensory organs …

[HTML][HTML] The preoptic area and dorsal habenula jointly support homeostatic navigation in larval zebrafish

V Palieri, E Paoli, YK Wu, M Haesemeyer, ICG Kadow… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Animals must maintain physiological processes within an optimal temperature range despite
changes in their environment. Through behavioral assays, whole-brain functional imaging …

[HTML][HTML] Preclinical Verification of Modulated Electro-Hyperthermia—Part I. In Vitro Research

A Szasz - International Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2024 - scirp.org
Modulated electro-hyperthermia (mEHT) targets tissue's natural electric and thermal
heterogeneities to heat the cancer cells selectively. The applied 13.56 MHz radiofrequency …