Circadian Regulation of Light-Evoked Attraction and Avoidance Behaviors in Daytime- versus Nighttime-Biting Mosquitoes

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Phototaxis: Isolation of Mutant Strains of Chlamydomonas reinhardi with Reversed Sign of Response*†

Three mutant strains of Chlamydomonas reinhardi were isolated which are negatively phototactic under all conditions tested. Tetrad analysis indicated that these represent three separate, nuclear mutations. Two mutant genes are linked; the third is on a separate chromosome. At least two of the loci appear relatively far from their centromere(s).     

Similarities and differences in the peering-jump behavior of three grasshopper species (Orthoptera: Caelifera)

The peering-jump behavior was studied for the common field grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus , the meadow grasshopper C. parallelus and the alpine grasshopper Miramella alpina (Orthoptera, Caelifera). It was found that immediately before jumping M. alpina executes primarily unilateral object-related peering movements, with approximately twice the amplitude and velocity of the predominantly bilateral object-related peering movements of the other two species. Whereas M. alpina almost always jumped toward the black stripes in the experimental arena, the other species jumped toward both the black stripes and the white spaces between them. All three species preferred the same pattern of black stripes, which permitted them to view one black stripe frontally, with an additional black stripe to the left and right, in the lateral visual field. The similarities and differences in the peering-jump behavior of the three grasshopper species is discussed with regard to visual perception (parallax cues) and environmental adaptation.     

Origin and early evolution of neural circuits for the control of ciliary locomotion

Behaviour evolved before nervous systems. Various single-celled eukaryotes (protists) and the ciliated larvae of sponges devoid of neurons can display sophisticated behaviours, including phototaxis, gravitaxis or chemotaxis. In single-celled eukaryotes, sensory inputs directly influence the motor behaviour of the cell. In swimming sponge larvae, sensory cells influence the activity of cilia on the same cell, thereby steering the multicellular larva. In these organisms, the efficiency of sensory-to-motor transformation (defined as the ratio of sensory cells to total cell number) is low. With the advent of neurons, signal amplification and fast, long-range communication between sensory and motor cells became possible. This may have first occurred in a ciliated swimming stage of the first eumetazoans. The first axons may have had en passant synaptic contacts to several ciliated cells to improve the efficiency of sensory-to-motor transformation, thereby allowing a reduction in the number of sensory cells tuned for the same input. This could have allowed the diversification of sensory modalities and of the behavioural repertoire. I propose that the first nervous systems consisted of combined sensory-motor neurons, directly translating sensory input into motor output on locomotor ciliated cells and steering muscle cells. Neuronal circuitry with low levels of integration has been retained in cnidarians and in the ciliated larvae of some marine invertebrates. This parallel processing stage could have been the starting point for the evolution of more integrated circuits performing the first complex computations such as persistence or coincidence detection. The sensory-motor nervous systems of cnidarians and ciliated larvae of diverse phyla show that brains, like all biological structures, are not irreducibly complex.     

近零磁场对褐飞虱翅型分化、趋光性及飞行能力的影响

【目的】地磁场(geomagnetic field,GMF)不是恒定不变的,而是随时间和空间时刻变化的。目前,动物对磁场变化的响应研究主要集中于迁徙性动物地磁定向导航中的磁感受方面,而迁徙性动物迁出地和迁入地之间地磁场强度差异对动物生理和行为潜在的磁场效应尚不明确。【方法】迁飞性昆虫褐飞虱Nilaparvata lugens试虫采自江苏省农业科学院试验田。本文采用亥姆霍兹线圈室内模拟近零磁场(near-zero magnetic field,NZMF)和GMF,调查了褐飞虱成虫在NZMF和GMF下的翅型分化、趋光性和飞行能力。【结果】结果表明,与GMF相比,NZMF显著提高了褐飞虱雄成虫短翅型比例(6. 4%)(P <0. 05),但对雌成虫长翅型比例影响不显著(P> 0. 05);对于长翅雌成虫,NZMF显著提高了其2日龄成虫的上灯比例(55%)(P <0. 05),但显著降低了其4日龄成虫的上灯比例(22%)(P <0. 05),对趋光性的影响总体呈现出随着龄期先增强后减弱的效应。NZMF对长翅雄成虫趋光性的影响也呈现出相同的效应,但对各日龄成虫的影响不显著(P> 0. 05); NZMF显著缩短了2日龄长翅雄成虫的飞行时间(46%)(P <0. 05),并显著提高了长翅雌成虫(65%)和长翅雄成虫(101%)的飞行速度(P <0. 05)。此外,GMF对照组的褐飞虱长翅雄成虫飞行速度显著低于长翅雌成虫(96%),而NZMF处理组中二者无显著差异。【结论】结果说明,近零磁场可提高褐飞虱成虫短翅比例,对长翅成虫趋光性的影响呈现出基于龄期增长先增强后减弱的效应,并在未影响长翅成虫飞行距离的情况下,改变了其飞行策略,即提高飞行速度,同时缩短飞行时间。     

The importance of olfactory and visual cues in developing better monitoring tools for Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae)

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