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ArticleThe Journal of experimental biology2024

Fantastic beasts and how to study them: rethinking experimental animal behavior.

Siyu Serena Ding, Jessica L Fox, Andrew Gordus, Abhilasha Joshi, James C Liao, Monika Scholz

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Article in The Journal of experimental biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Siyu Serena DingMax Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, 78464 Konstanz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8590-3908
Jessica L FoxDepartment of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6374-657X
Andrew GordusDepartment of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5550-0286
Abhilasha JoshiDepartments of Physiology and Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0511-3747
James C LiaoDepartment of Biology, The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, FL 32080, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0181-6995
Monika ScholzMax Planck Research Group Neural Information Flow, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior - caesar, 53175 Bonn, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2186-410X

Funding

Cross-Modal Sensory Interactions, Processing, and Representation in the Drosophila BrainU01NS131438 · NINDS · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI COHEN, ITAI, COWAN, NOAH JOHN · 2023 to 2025
$5.8M
The Influence of Neuronal Variability on Perception and BehaviorR35GM124883 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Andrew George Gordus · 2017 to 2026
$3.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM124883NIH HHS R35GM124883NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS131438
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans have been trying to understand animal behavior at least since recorded history. Recent rapid development of new technologies has allowed us to make significant progress in understanding the physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying behavior, a key goal of neuroethology. However, there is a tradeoff when studying animal behavior and its underlying biological mechanisms: common behavior protocols in the laboratory are designed to be replicable and controlled, but they often fail to encompass the variability and breadth of natural behavior. This Commentary proposes a framework of 10 key questions that aim to guide researchers in incorporating a rich natural context into their experimental design or in choosing a new animal study system. The 10 questions cover overarching experimental considerations that can provide a template for interspecies comparisons, enable us to develop studies in new model organisms and unlock new experiments in our quest to understand behavior.

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Behavior, AnimalAnimalsBehaviorNatural habitatNeuroethologyNon-model organisms

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PMID38372042
PMCPMC10911175

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