The wide variety of animal behaviours that can be observed today arose through the
evolution of their underlying neural circuits. Advances in understanding the mechanisms …

Parenting is considered a key evolutionary innovation that contributed to the diversification
and expansion of vertebrates. However, we know little about how such diversity evolved …

Amphibians exhibit an incredible diversity of reproductive and life-history strategies,
including various forms of nest construction and nesting behaviour. Although anuran …

Alkaloids are important bioactive molecules throughout the natural world, and in many
animals they serve as a source of chemical defense against predation. Dendrobatid poison …

Neuroscientists have long studied species with convenient biological features to discover
how behavior emerges from conserved molecular, neural, and circuit level processes. With …

Sequestration of chemical defenses from dietary sources is dependent on the availability of
compounds in the environment and the mechanism of sequestration. Previous experiments …

Animals operate in complex environments, and salient social information is encoded in the
nervous system and then processed to initiate adaptive behavior. This encoding involves …

Abstract In Lake Malawi, two ecologically distinct lineages of cichlid fishes (rock‐vs sand‐
dwelling ecotypes, each comprised of over 200 species) evolved within the last million …

Neuroscience has a long, rich history in embracing unusual animals for research. Over the
past several decades, there has been a technology-driven bottleneck in the species used for …

Recent studies have served to emphasize the unique placement of amphibians, composed
of more than 8000 species, in the evolution of the brain. We provide an overview of the three …