Bubble templates in rats - While rodents are the first-choice animal model in the life sciences, they are rarely used as a model for higher visual functions. Here we report the performance of rats in ...
PLANTS Review on Ambient temperature regulated flowering time
PLANTS Review on Ambient temperature regulated flowering time -- Created by Leonie Verhage, Gerco C. Angenent and Richard G.H. Immink (Wageningen University, The Netherlands). Read the related Review ...
Signal Spreading from a Single Synapse. Researchers from Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience revealed signal spreading during structural plasticity of dendritic spines using new biosensors....
Video Abstract cjfas-2013-0337 Estimating reef fish discard mortality using surface and bottom...
This video abstract accompanies the article Estimating reef fish discard mortality using surface and bottom tagging: effects of hook injury and barotrauma by P.J. Rudershausen, J.A. Buckel, J.E. Hight...
Waking-like brain function in embryos - When in development do brains "wake up" for the first time? Balaban, Desco, and Vaquero (Current Biology, May 3, 2012) addressed this question using n...
The Function and Organization of the Fly Flight Motor/ Curr. Biol., Jan. 26, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 3)
The Function and Organization of the Fly Flight Motor/ Curr. Biol., Jan. 26, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 3). Fruit flies execute agile aerial maneuvers using only twelve control muscles per wing. In this stu...
Environmental Enrichment Rescues Precocious Critical Period
Critical periods are developmental time windows when neural circuits in the brain are shaped by experience. Jianhua Cang and colleagues show that a precocious critical period disrupts the matching of ...
Capturing Invisible Motions in the Transition from Ground to Rare Excited States of T4 Lysozyme L99A
Capturing Invisible Motions in the Transition from Ground to Rare Excited States of T4 Lysozyme L99A - Proteins commonly sample a number of conformational states to carry out their biological function...
