Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology最新文献

A plea for scientific integrity: a comment on the honeybee odometer controversy. 为科学诚信辩护：对蜜蜂里程计争议的评论。

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Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-025-01765-2

Geoffrey W Stuart

{"title":"A plea for scientific integrity: a comment on the honeybee odometer controversy.","authors":"Geoffrey W Stuart","doi":"10.1007/s00359-025-01765-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-025-01765-2","url":null,"abstract":"In a non-peer-reviewed arXiv preprint Laura Luebbert and Lior Pachter made numerous criticisms of the work of Mandyam Srinivasan and colleagues, suggesting that there was evidence of data duplication and data manipulation in their work. These imputations were amplified in a news article and blog post in the journal Science and then made news in the mainstream media in several countries. This media activity took place before journals and institutions had the chance to conduct formal investigations that would have allowed Srinivasan and his colleagues a fair hearing, with input from independent experts. In addition, there was no time for the scientific community to evaluate Luebbert and Pachter's work. In particular, they made some very critical comments based on statistical simulations, where they claimed that R2 values reported by Srinivasan and colleagues in six papers were \"ridiculously high\". In this commentary, I show that their inability to reproduce high R2 values was due to major flaws in their simulation models. Luebbert and Pachter have never responded in detail to my criticisms, instead relying on the logical fallacies of argument from authority and ad hominem attacks.","PeriodicalId":54862,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145276602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Pupil dynamics reveal the tuning of tortricid moths to diel activity. 瞳孔动态揭示了圆蛾对死亡活动的调节。

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Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-025-01759-0

Alejandro Martín-Gabarrella, César Gemeno, Aleš Škorjanc, Andrej Meglič, Gregor Belušič

{"title":"Pupil dynamics reveal the tuning of tortricid moths to diel activity.","authors":"Alejandro Martín-Gabarrella, César Gemeno, Aleš Škorjanc, Andrej Meglič, Gregor Belušič","doi":"10.1007/s00359-025-01759-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-025-01759-0","url":null,"abstract":"Insect compound eyes adapt in response to average stimulus intensity, but the adaptation is mediated also by intrinsic circadian rhythms and abiotic factors like temperature, which are indirectly related to the stimulus. We studied the effect of light, circadian rhythm, temperature and body size on light adaptation in Grapholita molesta (GM), Lobesia botrana (LB) and Cydia pomonella (CP) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). These moths have superposition compound eyes with identical trichromatic photoreceptor sets and temporal resolution; however, the adults are sexually active before (GM), during (LB) or after (CP) sunset, and experience very different light intensity and temperature variations during their activity period. Their eyes were examined with infrared pupillometry, light microscopy and micro-CT. The compound eyes are very small to medium-sized, with a clearly visible superposition pupil. The pupil reflectance of adults entrained to a 12/12 h light/dark cycle for 2 days maintained the entrained rhythm for days, closing and opening during the subjective day and night, respectively. Circadian rhythm was the most robust in CP. A fully open pupil was forced to close with a light pulse, and pupil brightness changes were monitored at 15 and 22 °C. The experiment revealed complex and different pupil dynamics among species at both temperatures. GM, the smallest species, was most affected by the lower temperature. The experimental paradigm can be used for high-throughput, non-invasive monitoring of multiple species' response to climate change, and to chemical and light pollution.","PeriodicalId":54862,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145253839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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My plea for academic decency remains unchanged: a response to Lior Pachter. 我对学术尊严的请求没有改变：对利奥尔·帕切特的回应。

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Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-025-01764-3

Eric J Warrant

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Setting the record straight: a response to Lior Pachter. 澄清事实：对利奥·帕切特的回应。

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Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-025-01763-4

Mandyam V Srinivasan

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Structural analogs modulate olfactory and behavioral responses to a bile acid sex pheromone in sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus). 结构类似物调节海七鳃鳗对胆汁酸性信息素的嗅觉和行为反应。

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Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology Pub Date : 2025-09-27 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-025-01760-7

Anne M Scott, Ke Li, Joseph J Riedy, Weiming Li

{"title":"Structural analogs modulate olfactory and behavioral responses to a bile acid sex pheromone in sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus).","authors":"Anne M Scott, Ke Li, Joseph J Riedy, Weiming Li","doi":"10.1007/s00359-025-01760-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-025-01760-7","url":null,"abstract":"Male sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) release a sex pheromone featuring a potent bile acid 3-keto petromyzonol sulfate (3kPZS), which plays a critical role in attracting ovulated females to spawning sites during their terminal reproductive phase. In this study, we evaluated how systematic modifications of 3kPZS, referred to as the 11 analogs that retain the 3kPZS core structure with one or more functional group substitutions, affect female sea lamprey neurophysiological and behavioral responses to 3kPZS. Using electro-olfactogram recordings and two-choice flume behavioral assays, we characterized responses elicited by each analog and assessed whether the analogs interfered with 3kPZS-induced responses. Our results demonstrate that bile acid analogs with substitutions of hydroxyl or ketone groups with sulfate moieties at carbon positions 3, 7, 12, and 24 elicit distinct olfactory and behavioral responses in sea lamprey. Analogs with a sulfate group at the carbon-24 position tended to elicit potent olfactory responses of comparable magnitude to 3kPZS. Adding more sulfates at the carbon-3, 7, or 12 position altered behavioral valence and often neutralized or reversed female attraction to 3kPZS in a flume. These data elucidate structure-activity relationships and identify key structural determinants underlying sea lamprey olfactory detection and odorant-mediated behavioral responses. The findings may inform a potential approach for managing invasive sea lamprey populations in the Laurentian Great Lakes by disrupting bile acid mediated pheromone communication. Further research is needed to assess the utility of these compounds in natural stream environments and to refine the structural features of these pheromone antagonists to enhance their efficacy.","PeriodicalId":54862,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145180398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Graded opsin co-expression along the butterfly retina fine tunes the spectral sensitivity of a colour-opponent cell across the visual field. 分级视蛋白共表达沿蝴蝶视网膜微调光谱灵敏度的颜色对抗细胞在整个视野。

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Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-025-01761-6

Andrew Dang, Uroš Cerkvenik, Marko Ilić, Primož Pirih, Eva Debevc, Adriana D Briscoe, Gregor Belušič

{"title":"Graded opsin co-expression along the butterfly retina fine tunes the spectral sensitivity of a colour-opponent cell across the visual field.","authors":"Andrew Dang, Uroš Cerkvenik, Marko Ilić, Primož Pirih, Eva Debevc, Adriana D Briscoe, Gregor Belušič","doi":"10.1007/s00359-025-01761-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-025-01761-6","url":null,"abstract":"Compound eyes deliver a vast stream of information to the tiny insect brains. To maximize the information content and minimize the redundancy of neural signals, insect eyes are built so to encode the relevant and filter out the unimportant elements of the visual environment. Terrestrial habitats have a predictable spatio-spectral structure, which can be matched by the distribution of photoreceptors with different spectral sensitivities across the retina. Here, we investigate the retinal organization of the nymphalid butterfly Heliconius melpomene using single-cell recordings, immunohistochemistry and eye shine imaging. The ventral retina is enriched with ommatidia, which contain red screening pigments that shape the spectral sensitivity of basal red receptors R9, while their long visual fibre photoreceptors R1&2, expressing a long-wavelength (L) opsin, are synaptically inhibited by R9 and directly participate in colour vision. These G + R- receptors frequently co-express the L opsin with the blue (B) or ultraviolet (U) opsin. U&L opsin-co-expressing R1&2 are scarce, while B&L co-expression is frequent in the ventral ommatidia and gradually diminishes towards the eye equator, where G + R- receptors express the L opsin only. In this region, G + R- receptors are further inhibited by blue-sensitive receptors. With electrophysiology matching immunohistochemistry, we reveal the fine tuning of spectral sensitivity of a single photoreceptor class across the dorso-ventral axis of the butterfly compound eye. Similar tuning is found in other nymphalid butterflies across the phylogeny, suggesting that this adaptation is ancestral and confers an advantage to those diurnal nymphalids, equipped with the cellular toolkit for colour vision in the red.","PeriodicalId":54862,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145152097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Electrophysiological responses of the clam (Ruditapes decussatus) osphradium to amino acids and alarm cues. 蛤（Ruditapes decussatus）对氨基酸和警报信号的电生理反应。

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Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-025-01757-2

Ana Rato, Joana Costa, Diana Gonçalves, Domitília Matias, Sandra Joaquim, Peter C Hubbard

{"title":"Electrophysiological responses of the clam (Ruditapes decussatus) osphradium to amino acids and alarm cues.","authors":"Ana Rato, Joana Costa, Diana Gonçalves, Domitília Matias, Sandra Joaquim, Peter C Hubbard","doi":"10.1007/s00359-025-01757-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-025-01757-2","url":null,"abstract":"Chemical sensing of the surrounding environment is crucial for many aspects of bivalve biology, such as food detection and predator avoidance. Aquatic organisms strongly depend on chemosensory systems; however, little is known about chemosensory systems in bivalves. To understand how the carpet shell clam (Ruditapes decussatus) senses its surrounding chemical environment, we used an electrophysiological technique - the electro-osphradiogram - to assess the sensitivity of the osphradium to different putative odorants (amino acids, bile acids) and odours (predator-released cues and signals from con- and heterospecific bivalves). The clam osphradium was sensitive to most proteinogenic L-amino acids, evoking negative, tonic, and concentration-dependent responses. However, acidic amino acids (L-glutamic and L-aspartic acid), L-arginine and bile acids (cholic, taurocholic and taurolithocholic acid) failed to evoke any response. Surprisingly, while cues from injured bivalves (con- and heterospecific) evoked strong responses, predator-released cues (green crab, Carcinus maenas) failed to elicit any response, whether fed or unfed. That predator-released cues failed to evoke an electrophysiological response in the clam osphradium may indicate that they use cues released by injured prey - alarm cues - to avoid predation and/or that predators are detected by different sensory modalities. Indeed, the behavioural assays, performed to understand how clams make use of such sensory inputs, revealed that the activity index decreased after exposure to water conditioned with injured conspecifics, suggesting the origin of such alarm cues. Further research is needed to identify the chemical nature of these cues. We suggest that the electro-osphradiogram will be a useful tool in this endeavour.","PeriodicalId":54862,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145001941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A plea for academic truth. 为学术真理辩护。

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Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-025-01756-3

Lior Pachter

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Neural bottlenecks: axon count, distribution, and conduction in the Manduca sexta neck connective. 神经瓶颈：猴颈结缔组织的轴突数量、分布和传导。

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Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-025-01755-4

Leo Wood, Karrah Hayes, Varun Sharma, Eric Sun, Max Chen, Simon Sponberg

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A millisecond parameter space for phase-shifting the circadian pacemaker with near-ultraviolet light. 用近紫外光移相昼夜节律起搏器的毫秒参数空间。

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Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology Pub Date : 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-025-01754-5

Sevag Kaladchibachi, David C Negelspach, Jamie M Zeitzer, Fabian-Xosé Fernandez

{"title":"A millisecond parameter space for phase-shifting the circadian pacemaker with near-ultraviolet light.","authors":"Sevag Kaladchibachi, David C Negelspach, Jamie M Zeitzer, Fabian-Xosé Fernandez","doi":"10.1007/s00359-025-01754-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-025-01754-5","url":null,"abstract":"Light-mediated circadian entrainment is a fundamental sensory process across taxa, yet the contribution of ultraviolet-A (UVA; 315-400 nm) wavelengths remains poorly understood. Here, we characterize the phase-shifting effects of brief UVA light flashes in Drosophila ananassae, a species with known sensitivity to short-wavelength light via ocular and extraocular photoreceptors. Using a parametric array of 62 UVA LED protocols varying in flash duration (8, 16, 120 ms), frequency (0.13-1.0 Hz), and irradiance, we quantified circadian phase shifts in the locomotor activity rhythm under constant darkness following stimulation in either the delay (ZT13) or advance (ZT23) zones. Young flies (2-3 days old) exhibited robust phase delays and advances that scaled with flash luminance and frequency. Dose-response modeling revealed increased phase-shifting efficiency and lower energy thresholds with decreasing flash duration, especially at ZT23. By contrast, aged flies (40-45 days) showed significantly attenuated responses, particularly to 8 ms pulses, indicating an age-related decline in UVA sensitivity. These findings suggest that the insect circadian system is finely tuned to the temporal structure of UVA input, with optimal entrainment possibly occurring in response to brief, intermittent stimulation. The marked reduction in responsiveness with age highlights a potential erosion of fast-acting photoreceptive pathways. Given the conservation of UVA-sensitive photopigments across animals, these results offer comparative insights into how temporal light encoding influences circadian regulation across life stages and taxa.","PeriodicalId":54862,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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