What amphibians can teach us about the evolution of parental care

E Ringler, B Rojas, JL Stynoski… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Systems biology as a framework to understand the physiological and endocrine bases of behavior and its evolution—From concepts to a case study in birds

MJ Fuxjager, TB Ryder, NM Moody, C Alfonso… - Hormones and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Organismal behavior, with its tremendous complexity and diversity, is generated by
numerous physiological systems acting in coordination. Understanding how these systems …

Into the deep: Exploring the molecular mechanisms of hyperactive behaviour induced by three rare earth elements in early life-stages of the deep-sea scavenging …

JA Riedel, I Smolina, C Donat, LH Svendheim… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
With increasing socio-economic importance of the rare earth elements and yttrium (REY),
Norway has laid out plans for REY mining, from land-based to deep-sea mining, thereby …

Evolutionary endocrinology and the problem of Darwin's tangled bank

KA Rosvall - Hormones and Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Like Darwin's tangled bank of biodiversity, the endocrine mechanisms that give rise to
phenotypic diversity also exhibit nearly endless forms. This tangled bank of mechanistic …

Who cares? An integrative approach to understanding the evolution of behavioural plasticity in parental care

SE Westrick, JB Moss, EK Fischer - Animal Behaviour, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Behavioural plasticity can be studied across individuals, sexes and
species.•Mechanisms of plasticity may constrain or facilitate evolution of …

Transcriptomic responses in the nervous system and correlated behavioural changes of a cephalopod exposed to ocean acidification

JT Thomas, R Huerlimann, C Schunter, SA Watson… - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Background The nervous system is central to coordinating behavioural responses to
environmental change, likely including ocean acidification (OA). However, a clear …

Gene regulation supporting sociality shared across lineages and variation in complexity

BC Pyenson, SM Rehan - Genome, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Across evolutionary lineages, insects vary in social complexity, from those that exhibit
extended parental care to those with elaborate divisions of labor. Here, we synthesize the …

A perspective on neuroethology: what the past teaches us about the future of neuroethology

MJ Beetz - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2024 - Springer
For 100 years, the Journal of Comparative Physiology-A has significantly supported
research in the field of neuroethology. The celebration of the journal's centennial is a great …

Functional neurogenomic responses to acoustic threats, including a heterospecific referential alarm call and its referent, in the auditory forebrain of red-winged …

ND Antonson, JK Enos, SL Lawson, FMK Uy, SA Gill… - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
In animal communication, functionally referential alarm calls elicit the same behavioral
responses as their referents, despite their typically distinct bioacoustic traits. Yet the auditory …

Beyond genes‐for‐behaviour: The potential for genomics to resolve long‐standing questions in avian brood parasitism

K Rönkä, F Eroukhmanoff, J Kulmuni… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Behavioural ecology by definition of its founding 'Tinbergian framework'is an integrative
field, however, it lags behind in incorporating genomic methods.'Finding the gene/s for a …