Infectious disease resistance in chickens strongly depends on a genomic region called the MHC, and the rules governing pathogen peptide presentation for a key MHC molecule may aid vaccine development.
Yi Lueningschroer-Wang, Emilia Derksen ... Christian Wegener
Wall-following and total walking activity in a behavioural assay can serve as indicators of emotional valence and arousal and provide evidence for the presence of emotion primitives in fruit flies.
The choice of fitness metric is crucial in microbial ecology—commonly chosen metrics lead to different results that may affect the conclusions from pairwise competition assays and high-throughput genetic screens.
Morgane Vandendoren, Jason G Landen ... Adam Nelson
Oxytocin neurons couple physiological warming to behavioral arousal, revealing a homeostatic mechanism that coordinates transitions between low- and high-energy states.
Simulation-based inference predicts putative circuit mechanisms of hyperexcitability in a phenomenological microcircuit simulator with more than 30 free intrinsic and synaptic parameters.
