Journal of Experimental Biology
ECR Spotlight – Jasmine Nirody
ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology duri…
Journal of Experimental Biology
Responses of the in vitro turtle brain to visual and auditory stimuli during severe hypoxia
ABSTRACTNorth American pond turtles (Emydidae) are renowned for their ability to survive extreme hypoxia and anoxia, which enables several species to overwinter in ice-locked, anoxic freshwater ponds and bogs for months. Centrally important for survivi…
Journal of Experimental Biology
Responses of the in vitro turtle brain to visual and auditory stimuli during severe hypoxia
ABSTRACTNorth American pond turtles (Emydidae) are renowned for their ability to survive extreme hypoxia and anoxia, which enables several species to overwinter in ice-locked, anoxic freshwater ponds and bogs for months. Centrally important for survivi…
Journal of Experimental Biology
Prenatal thyroid hormones accelerate postnatal growth and telomere shortening in wild great tits
ABSTRACTThe early-life environment is known to affect later-life health and disease, which could be mediated by the early-life programming of telomere length, a key hallmark of ageing. According to the fetal programming of telomere biology hypothesis, …
Journal of Experimental Biology
The importance of comparative physiology: mechanisms, diversity and adaptation in skeletal muscle physiology and mechanics
ABSTRACTSkeletal muscle powers animal movement, making it an important determinant of fitness. The classic excitation–contraction coupling, sliding-filament and crossbridge theories are thought to describe the processes of muscle activation and the gen…
Journal of Experimental Biology
Of corpses, ghosts and mirages: biomechanical consequences of morphology depend on the environment
ABSTRACTOrganisms are subject to the laws of physics, so comparative biomechanics is a powerful approach for identifying basic principles that apply across taxa of how morphology affects performance of mechanical functions such as locomotion, feeding o…
Journal of Experimental Biology
Evolutionary trade-offs in osmotic and ionic regulation and expression of gill ion transporter genes in high latitude, cold clime Neotropical crabs from the ‘end of the world’
ABSTRACTOsmoregulatory findings on crabs from high Neotropical latitudes are entirely lacking. Seeking to identify the consequences of evolution at low temperature, we examined hyperosmotic/hypo-osmotic and ionic regulation and gill ion transporter gen…
Journal of Experimental Biology
Multiscale flow between the branches and polyps of gorgonians
ABSTRACTGorgonians, including sea fans, are soft corals well known for their elaborate branching structure and how they sway in the ocean. This branching structure can modify environmental flows to be beneficial for feeding in a particular range of vel…