Expanding evolutionary neuroscience: insights from comparing variation in behavior

Studying convergent evolution to relate genotype to behavioral phenotype

(2020) Jason R. Gallant et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Generation, Coordination, and Evolution of Neural Circuits for Vocal Communication

(2020) Darcy B. Kelley et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Olfactory receptor and circuit evolution promote host specialization

(2020) Thomas O. Auer et al.   NATURE

A virtual reality system to analyze neural activity and behavior in adult zebrafish

(2020) Kuo-Hua Huang et al.   NATURE METHODS

The origins of acoustic communication in vertebrates

(2020) Zhuo Chen et al.   Nature Communications

How Natural Genetic Variation Shapes Behavior

(2020) Natalie Niepoth et al.   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Null hypotheses for developmental evolution

(2020) Samuel H. Church et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Genetic drift does not sufficiently explain patterns of electric signal variation among populations of the mormyrid electric fish Paramormyrops kingsleyae

(2020) Sophie Picq et al.   EVOLUTION

Ecotype differences in aggression, neural activity and behaviorally relevant gene expression in cichlid fish

(2020) Nicole M. Baran et al.   GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

A neuronal signature for monogamous reunion

(2020) Jennifer L. Scribner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetics is the New Genetics (for Most of Biodiversity)

(2020) Stacey D. Smith et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Words without meaning

(2020) Eve Marder   eLife

A versatile depigmentation, clearing, and labeling method for exploring nervous system diversity

(2020) Marko Pende et al.   Science Advances

BRICseq Bridges Brain-wide Interregional Connectivity to Neural Activity and Gene Expression in Single Animals

(2020) Longwen Huang et al.   CELL

On the value of model diversity in neuroscience

(2020) Gilles Laurent   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Comprehensive Dual- and Triple-Feature Intersectional Single-Vector Delivery of Diverse Functional Payloads to Cells of Behaving Mammals

(2020) Lief E. Fenno et al.   NEURON

Viral manipulation of functionally distinct interneurons in mice, non-human primates and humans

(2020) Douglas Vormstein-Schneider et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Dense neuronal reconstruction through X-ray holographic nano-tomography

(2020) Aaron T. Kuan et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Theoretical musings

(2020) Eve Marder   eLife

Wild observation of putative dynamic decapod mimicry by a cuttlefish (Sepia cf. smithi)

(2020) Sean van Elden et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Cavefish brain atlases reveal functional and anatomical convergence across independently evolved populations

(2020) James B. Jaggard et al.   Science Advances

The Genetics of Mating Song Evolution Underlying Speciation: Linking Quantitative Variation to Candidate Genes for Behavioral Isolation

(2019) Mingzi Xu et al.   GENETICS

Multidimensional screening yields channelrhodopsin variants having improved photocurrent and order-of-magnitude reductions in calcium and proton currents

(2019) Yong Ku Cho et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

DeepSqueak: a deep learning-based system for detection and analysis of ultrasonic vocalizations

(2019) Kevin R. Coffey et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Motor cortical control of vocal interaction in neotropical singing mice

(2019) Daniel E. Okobi et al.   SCIENCE

Electroreception, electrogenesis and electric signal evolution

(2019) William G. R. Crampton   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Neural Evolution of Context-Dependent Fly Song

(2019) Yun Ding et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Singing mice

(2019) Arkarup Banerjee et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Model clades are vital for comparative biology, and ascertainment bias is not a problem in practice: a response to Beaulieu and O'Meara (2018)

(2019) Michael J. Donoghue et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Visually Guided Behavior and Optogenetically Induced Learning in Head-Fixed Flies Exploring a Virtual Landscape

(2019) Hannah Haberkern et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Co-opting evo-devo concepts for new insights into mechanisms of behavioural diversity

(2019) Kim L. Hoke et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The conservative bias of life scientists

(2019) Paul S. Katz   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Command or obey? Homologous neurons differ in hierarchical position for the generation of homologous behaviors

(2019) Akira Sakurai et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Insect egg size and shape evolve with ecology but not developmental rate

(2019) Samuel H. Church et al.   NATURE

High-performance calcium sensors for imaging activity in neuronal populations and microcompartments

(2019) Hod Dana et al.   NATURE METHODS

Duets recorded in the wild reveal that interindividually coordinated motor control enables cooperative behavior

(2019) Susanne Hoffmann et al.   Nature Communications

MerMAIDs: a family of metagenomically discovered marine anion-conducting and intensely desensitizing channelrhodopsins

(2019) Johannes Oppermann et al.   Nature Communications

A dataset of egg size and shape from more than 6,700 insect species

(2019) Samuel H. Church et al.   Scientific Data

Significant Neuroanatomical Variation Among Domestic Dog Breeds

(2019) Erin E. Hecht et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Accurate circular consensus long-read sequencing improves variant detection and assembly of a human genome

(2019) Aaron M. Wenger et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

DeepPoseKit, a software toolkit for fast and robust animal pose estimation using deep learning

(2019) Jacob M Graving et al.   eLife

Adaptive substitutions underlying cardiac glycoside insensitivity in insects exhibit epistasis in vivo

(2019) Andrew M Taverner et al.   eLife

Genome editing retraces the evolution of toxin resistance in the monarch butterfly

(2019) Marianthi Karageorgi et al.   NATURE

The Life of Behavior

(2019) Alex Gomez-Marin et al.   NEURON

Computational Neuroethology: A Call to Action

(2019) Sandeep Robert Datta et al.   NEURON

MARGO (Massively Automated Real-time GUI for Object-tracking), a platform for high-throughput ethology

(2019) Zach Werkhoven et al.   PLoS One

Predator-induced fear causes PTSD-like changes in the brains and behaviour of wild animals

(2019) Liana Y. Zanette et al.   Scientific Reports

Vocal divergence is concordant with genomic evidence for strong reproductive isolation in grasshopper mice ( Onychomys )

(2019) Polly Campbell et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Selection for rhythm as a trigger for recursive evolution in the elaborate display system of woodpeckers

(2019) Meredith Miles et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Mechanisms of Convergent Egg Provisioning in Poison Frogs

(2019) Eva K. Fischer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Highly multiplexed single-cell RNA-seq by DNA oligonucleotide tagging of cellular proteins

(2019) Jase Gehring et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Behavioral evolution contributes to hindbrain diversification among Lake Malawi cichlid fish

(2019) Ryan A. York et al.   Scientific Reports

The evolution of nesting behaviour in Peromyscus mice

(2018) Caitlin L. Lewarch et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Temperature preference of cave and surface populations of Astyanax mexicanus

(2018) Julius A. Tabin et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Bat detective—Deep learning tools for bat acoustic signal detection

(2018) Oisin Mac Aodha et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Hypocretin underlies the evolution of sleep loss in the Mexican cavefish

(2018) James B Jaggard et al.   eLife

A Maladaptive Combination of Traits Contributes to the Maintenance of a Drosophila Hybrid Zone

(2018) Brandon S. Cooper et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Insulin resistance in cavefish as an adaptation to a nutrient-limited environment

(2018) Misty R. Riddle et al.   NATURE

Evolution of a central neural circuit underlies Drosophila mate preferences

(2018) Laura F. Seeholzer et al.   NATURE

DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning

(2018) Alexander Mathis et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Social regulation of insulin signaling and the evolution of eusociality in ants

(2018) Vikram Chandra et al.   SCIENCE

Parallel clinal variation in the mid-day siesta of Drosophila melanogaster implicates continent-specific targets of natural selection

(2018) Yong Yang et al.   PLoS Genetics

Oxytocin receptor knockout prairie voles generated by CRISPR/Cas9 editing show reduced preference for social novelty and exaggerated repetitive behaviors

(2018) Kengo Horie et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Elucidating the control and development of skin patterning in cuttlefish

(2018) Sam Reiter et al.   NATURE

Diversification, adaptation, and community assembly of the American oaks (Quercus ), a model clade for integrating ecology and evolution

(2018) Jeannine Cavender-Bares   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Behavior-dependent cis regulation reveals genes and pathways associated with bower building in cichlid fishes

(2018) Ryan A. York et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular, spatial, and functional single-cell profiling of the hypothalamic preoptic region

(2018) Jeffrey R. Moffitt et al.   SCIENCE

The genetic basis of a social polymorphism in halictid bees

(2018) Sarah D. Kocher et al.   Nature Communications

The importance of identified neurons in gastropod molluscs to neuroscience

(2018) Paul S Katz et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Variations on a theme: species differences in synaptic connectivity do not predict central pattern generator activity

(2017) Charuni A. Gunaratne et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

The genetic basis of parental care evolution in monogamous mice

(2017) Andres Bendesky et al.   NATURE

Fully integrated silicon probes for high-density recording of neural activity

(2017) James J. Jun et al.   NATURE

Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias

(2017) John W. Krakauer et al.   NEURON

MUPET—Mouse Ultrasonic Profile ExTraction: A Signal Processing Tool for Rapid and Unsupervised Analysis of Ultrasonic Vocalizations

(2017) Maarten Van Segbroeck et al.   NEURON

The emperor’s new wardrobe: Rebalancing diversity of animal models in neuroscience research

(2017) Michael M. Yartsev   SCIENCE

Genetic and Transgenic Reagents for Drosophila simulans , D. mauritiana , D. yakuba , D. santomea , and D. virilis

(2017) David L. Stern et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

‘Model organisms’ in the light of evolution

(2016) Paul S. Katz   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genes and Odors Underlying the Recent Evolution of Mosquito Preference for Humans

(2016) Carolyn S. McBride   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The ultimate and proximate mechanisms driving the evolution of long tails in forest deer mice

(2016) Evan P. Kingsley et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolution of Schooling Behavior in Threespine Sticklebacks Is Shaped by the Eda Gene

(2016) Anna K. Greenwood et al.   GENETICS

Natural courtship song variation caused by an intronic retroelement in an ion channel gene

(2016) Yun Ding et al.   NATURE

Evolution of Schooling Behavior in Threespine Sticklebacks Is Shaped by the Eda Gene

(2016) Anna K. Greenwood et al.   GENETICS

Investigating body patterning in aquarium-raised flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi)

(2016) Amber Thomas et al.   PeerJ

Distinct genetic architecture underlies the emergence of sleep loss and prey-seeking behavior in the Mexican cavefish

(2015) Masato Yoshizawa et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic and individual variation in gastropod central pattern generators

(2015) Akira Sakurai et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Monosynaptic Circuit Tracing with Glycoprotein-Deleted Rabies Viruses

(2015) E. M. Callaway et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Acute off-target effects of neural circuit manipulations

(2015) Timothy M. Otchy et al.   NATURE

Mapping Sub-Second Structure in Mouse Behavior

(2015) Alexander B. Wiltschko et al.   NEURON

Evolution of central pattern generators and rhythmic behaviours

(2015) Paul S. Katz   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Melanocortin 4 receptor mutations contribute to the adaptation of cavefish to nutrient-poor conditions

(2015) Ariel C. Aspiras et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Natural light-gated anion channels: A family of microbial rhodopsins for advanced optogenetics

(2015) E. G. Govorunova et al.   SCIENCE

Emerging from the bottleneck: benefits of the comparative approach to modern neuroscience

(2015) Eliot A. Brenowitz et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

A novel behavioral paradigm to assess multisensory processing in mice

(2015) Justin K. Siemann et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Genetic Mapping of Natural Variation in Schooling Tendency in the Threespine Stickleback

(2015) Anna K. Greenwood et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Acoustic duetting in Drosophila virilis relies on the integration of auditory and tactile signals

(2015) Kelly M LaRue et al.   eLife

A quantitative framework for whole-body coordination reveals specific deficits in freely walking ataxic mice

(2015) Ana S Machado et al.   eLife

Peromyscus mice as a model for studying natural variation

(2015) Nicole L Bedford et al.   eLife

Visual Perception in the Brain of a Jumping Spider

(2014) Gil Menda et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolution of mosquito preference for humans linked to an odorant receptor

(2014) Carolyn S. McBride et al.   NATURE

Identification of loci that cause phenotypic variation in diverse species with the reciprocal hemizygosity test

(2014) David L. Stern   TRENDS IN GENETICS

An integrative view of phylogenetic comparative methods: connections to population genetics, community ecology, and paleobiology

(2013) Matthew W. Pennell et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Discrete genetic modules are responsible for complex burrow evolution in Peromyscus mice

(2013) Jesse N. Weber et al.   NATURE

Permanent Genetic Access to Transiently Active Neurons via TRAP: Targeted Recombination in Active Populations

(2013) Casey J. Guenthner et al.   NEURON

Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel in Grasshopper Mice Defends Against Bark Scorpion Toxin

(2013) A. H. Rowe et al.   SCIENCE

Molecular Profiling of Activated Neurons by Phosphorylated Ribosome Capture

(2012) Zachary A. Knight et al.   CELL

The concept of homology as a basis for evaluating developmental mechanisms: Exploring selective attention across the life-span

(2012) Robert Lickliter et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Phylogenomics reveals deep molluscan relationships

(2011) Kevin M. Kocot et al.   NATURE

Multiple models to capture the variability in biological neurons and networks

(2011) Eve Marder et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Variability, compensation, and modulation in neurons and circuits

(2011) E. Marder   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Imaging of Transgenic Cricket Embryos Reveals Cell Movements Consistent with a Syncytial Patterning Mechanism

(2010) Taro Nakamura et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Physiological resistance of grasshopper mice (Onychomys spp.) to Arizona bark scorpion (Centruroides exilicauda) venom

(2008) Ashlee H. Rowe et al.   TOXICON