Zixuan M Zhang,Nicolai Konow,Andrew A Biewener Zixuan M Zhang

Flying animals (birds, bats, and insects) often negotiate cluttered environments, sometimes involving the need to safely transit through tight spaces between obstacles. Considering their remarkable flight capabilities, hummingbirds are suit...

Nick Barts,Brian K Trevelline,M Denise Dearing et al. Nick Barts et al.

Diet and host identity play fundamental roles in digestive physiology and the assembly of gut microbial communities. Research shows that microbial communities are plastic, with abundances of taxa and community interactions exhibiting change...

Annkathrin Sonntag,Martin Egelhaaf,Olivier J N Bertrand et al. Annkathrin Sonntag et al.

When foraging, flying animals like bees are often required to change their flight altitude from close to the ground to above the height of vegetation to reach their nest or a food source. While the mechanisms of navigating towards a goal in...

Marco A Vindas,Ole Folkedal,Johan Aerts et al. Marco A Vindas et al.

A subpopulation of aquaculture salmon are characterized by abnormal swimming behavior, growth stunting, and anorexia, as well as chronically elevated cortisol and brain serotonergic levels. This profile is associated with a depression-like ...

Kevin D Kohl,Nick Barts,Karen Peralta Martínez et al. Kevin D Kohl et al.

To efficiently digest food resources that may vary spatially and temporally, animals maintain physiological flexibility across levels of organization. For example, in response to dietary shifts, animals may exhibit changes in the expression...

Mauricio Losilla,Jason R Gallant Mauricio Losilla

Electric organ discharge (EOD) duration in African weakly electric fish (Mormyridae) is the most variable waveform component between species and the basis for distinguishing species-specific signals. EOD duration is thought to be influenced...

Laura C McHenry,Roger Schürch,McAlister Council-Troche et al. Laura C McHenry et al.

Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum herbicide that inhibits the shikimate pathway, which honey bees (Apis mellifera), a non-target beneficial pollinator, do not endogenously express. Nonetheless, sublethal glyphosate exposure in honey bees has b...

George Sato,Taiki Adachi,Christophe Guinet et al. George Sato et al.

The role of diving respiratory air volume (DRAV) in deep-diving phocid seals remains poorly understood, largely due to the lack of methods for measuring DRAV in free-ranging divers that exhale before diving. We developed a method to estimat...

Yang-Yang Guo,Fangyan Liu,Honglei Chang et al. Yang-Yang Guo et al.

Climate change is reshaping the thermal environment of Meriones meridianus habitats in the Mu Us Desert in China. However, the trade-off between behavioral plasticity and physiological adaptations in this species when coping with extreme te...

Julia Watson,Chloé Souques,François-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont et al. Julia Watson et al.

Heat stress events will be more frequent and intense in the future. These events will challenge the capacity of organisms to exhibit sufficient metabolic flexibility to adapt to such variations. To better understand the acclimation processe...