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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Sea slug"”.
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Reciprocal interactions between feeding and turning motor networks mediate foraging decisions in a predatory sea-slug
… and learning. As a generalist predator, the sea-slug Pleurobranchaea californica confronts a variety of approach-avoidance foraging decisions. Its simple nervous system and behaviors have enabled the neural correlates of these foraging decisions, including those related to sensation, feeding, …
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Prey avoidance learning and neuronal elements mediating behavioral switching in the predatory sea-slug Pleurobranchaea californica
… approach in investigating how the predatory sea-slug Pleurobranchaea californica makes behavioral choices. Pleurobranchaea is a predatory generalist that surveys its environment for potential prey in a trial-and-error fashion. When encountering the Nudibranch Flabellina iodinea and its …
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Electrophysiology, agent-based modeling and inverse optimal control applications in neuroethology
… and time minimization. The predatory sea-slug Pleurobranchaea californica has a simple, accessible nervous system and exhibits a repertory of simple behavioral elements that constitute effective foraging strategies. In this thesis, we introduce initial findings of sensory neurons …
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Neural Mechanisms of Decision-Making: Modulation of the Feeding Neural Network by Nitric Oxide and Serotonin in the Predatory Marine Snail Pleurobranchaea Californica
… in Pleurobranchaea californica, a predatory sea slug that makes stereotypic feeding and avoidance decisions based on its hunger state within the structure of a relatively simple nervous system. NO selectively depolarizes key feeding elements in the CNS in part through enhancement of specific …
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Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based neuropeptide characterizations across neuronal models
… in the flatworm, the comb jelly and the sea slug, from samples ranging from whole animals to tissues; we sequenced the human insulin ectopically expressed in the fruit fly, and we detected a putative alarin peptide in the human cell line which requires further verification; we confirmed …
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A neuronal switch for approach/avoidance in cost-benefit decision
… these decisions are accessible in the predatory sea- slug Pleurobranchaea, which has a very simple nervous system. Orienting and avoidance responses are dependent on the appetitive state, such that very hungry animals may attack noxious stimuli and satiated animals will avoid appetitive stimuli. …
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Structural Origins and Functions of Colour Diversity in Sea Slugs: Novel Photonic Architectures, Biological Roles, and Biomimetic Applications
Sea slugs exhibit some of the most brilliantly diverse colours and patterns of all animals on Earth and are often described as the marine world’s answer to butterflies. Whilst the extraordinary variety of their colour palette is well documented, its physical origin has been largely overlooked. In …