Sentences with phrase «locomotor behavior»

The co-author on the paper, Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy, is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Kent State University, well known for his reconstructions of the socioecology and locomotor behavior of early hominids such as «Ardi» (Ardipithecus ramidus, 4.4 million years old) and «Lucy» (Australopithecus afarensis, 3.2 million years old).

«This new locomotor behavior could have been part of an arms race with monkeys for fruit resources, with a later increase in body size being another step in this race,» Grabowski explains.

«This allows the sensory system to be tuned to the different stimuli relevant to the locomotor behaviors and fin mechanics of different species.»

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Exceptionally short - period circadian clock in Cyclosa turbinata: regulation of locomotor and web - building behavior in an orb - weaving spider.

The changes in locomotor activity are associated with fluctuations of anxiety - like and depression - like behaviors, suggesting that the mutant mice may serve as an animal model showing infradian oscillations of mood substantially similar to those found in patients with bipolar disorder.

Research interests: Paleoanthropology, postcranial skeletal morphology, primate locomotor / positional behavior

With the first spontaneous movements taking place as early as 17 hours post-fertilization and swimming behavior occuring after 27 hours, zebrafish embryos prove to be a good model for the study of development of locomotor activity.

Finally, there are modest effects on daily patterns of behavior; while overexpression of Bmal1 in the skeletal muscle does not affect the timing or intensity of daily rhythms of wheel running, overexpression of Bmal1 does lead to an increase in general locomotor activity, particularly at the light - dark transitions and middle of each photoperiod.

Importantly, at both time points examined, there were no differences in locomotor activity and / or pain sensitivity between rat groups (Additional file6: Figure S5), suggesting that the reduced fear conditioning responses (freezing behavior) in transgenic rats were not influenced by any differences in sensitivity to pain or by increased locomotion.

Effects on learning and memory, social interaction, anxiety - related behaviors, locomotor activity, and pain sensitivity have been reported (6, 24).

They have spatial learning and memory defects as assessed in the Morris water maze and the radial arm maze, show developmental delay in sensorimotor milestones, and exhibit locomotor hyperactivity, lack of behavioral inhibition, and stereotypic behavior.

Molecular basis of scouting behaviors in honey bees Zhengzheng Liang, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, USA Dissociating epigenetic mechanisms of memory in the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex of rats Krista Mitchnick, Department of Psychology, Collaborative Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada Determining the heritability of locomotor sensitization to ethanol and its relationship to ethanol's positive motivational effects in mice David Linsenbardt, Indiana Alcohol Research Center and Department of Psychology, Indiana University — Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Rufy1 or Hnrnph1 is a likely quantitative trait gene for methamphetamine sensitivity Camron Bryant, Laboratory of Addiction Genetics, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Massechusetts, USA

For example, our studies identified transcription factors, RNA binding proteins, and signaling genes as critical miRNA targets during contexts such as development of peripheral sensory organs, wing, eye, and CNS, or during behavioral contexts such as egg - laying, rhythmic behavior, and locomotor activity (Figure 2).

In a 2005 study, scientists gave female rats high and low doses of caffeine and observed that `' caffeine selectively increased visits to the male when physical contact was possible,» a result they say suggests that `' the effects of caffeine on female mating behavior may reflect an increase in both sexual motivation and locomotor activity.»