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Greenland sharks have an incredibly slow metabolism, running 8 times slower than the most sluggish bull sharks, but the lethargic animals can keep going for lengthy periods on meagre portions. A 224kg shark only needs 164–193g of fish a day to keep going
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Welcome to new JEB Editor
@birdBiomech
who joins the team today.
Monica has had a long association with JEB before taking her new role with the Editorial team, overseeing peer review of neuromuscular physiology, terrestrial biomechanics and integrative physiology of locomotion
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To celebrate the 100th Anniversary of JEB
#JEB100
, we are launching two new grants to support junior faculty staff within five years of setting up their first lab/research group in the fields of animal
#comparativephysiology
and
#comparativebiomechanics
🧵1/4
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Fish with swimbladders should not descend below 7200m, so when
@Hadalbloke
&
@DrToddBond
spotted a macrourid at 7259m, they knew it was miraculous. With Imantes Priede they reveal that a 1kg fish's swimbladder could hold 37.9g oxygen for buoyancy 🧵1/2
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Catch this JEB sponsored
#BigBiology
Podcast where Art and Marty talk to
@HolliePutnam
about the causes of coral bleaching and the basic biology of corals in the hope of selectively breeding corals that can better tolerate future ocean conditions
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Who'd have thought? Mantis shrimp punches in air are slower and only one tenth of the power than in thick water
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We are sad to say good-bye to Hans Hoppeler, who stands down as JEB Editor-in-Chief after 25 years with the journal and welcome Craig Franklin into the role today
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After 20 years as a JEB Editor, we are sad to say good bye to
@AndrewBiewener
, but delighted to welcome his successor, Monica Daley
@birdBiomech
to the team
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Issue 22’s cover image by
@jmhuiee
shows the fluorescent ventral adhesive disc of a northern clingfish. In the accompanying article,
@jmhuiee
@fishwright3
@Fishguy_FHL
@Karly_Cohen
compare the maximum adhesive forces of clingfish, lumpsuckers & snailfish
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We are delighted to announce that Craig Franklin has been appointed as the next EiC of JEB, starting on 1 August. With research interests in ecophysiology and conservation physiology, Craig has been a Monitoring Editor since 2011.
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Read this year's JEB Special Issue:
Genome editing for comparative physiology
edited by Michael Dickinson, Leslie Vosshall and Julian Dow
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Tiny D. cerebrum produce super-loud clicks and now Antonia Groneberg
@benjulab
& co reveal how the cartilage hammers that hit the swim bladder develop. In addition, even 6-week-old fish click at full speed; they don't need to practice
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Mexican fruit flies wave their wings at predators, but why?
@dineshraov
and colleagues have discovered that the movement camouflages the insect by making it vanish in a blur in the eyes of spiders, causing the arachnid to hesitate so the fly can escape
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JEB is the leading primary research journal in
#comparativephysiology
and
#biomechanics
, published by the not-for-profit
@Co_Biologists
. Follow us to stay up to date and find out more at
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When
#sharks
experience waters that are too hot for them to handle, they become agitated.
@bouyoucos
& co discovered that the tissues of dogfish also start showing signs of stress at this temperature,
🧵1/2
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Graham Scott and Anne Dalziel review how studies of the evolution of aerobic capacity and the O2 transport pathway can provide appreciable insight into the systems-level mechanisms underlying the evolution of complex performance traits
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Tiny spring-powered mantis shrimp larvae are just as fearsome as their parents, beginning to release their powerful blows from as early as 9-days of age to pulverise their prey
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To celebrate
#InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
we are highlighting the awesome female early-career researchers that have been featured in Conversation
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In their
#JEB100
Review,
@cclemente4
&
@TaylorJMDick
remind us how body size affects animal shape, energy use, movement and ecology before discussing how scaling can explain how physical limits and evolutionary history can determine form and function
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Congratulations to
@eahardison
from
@ucsantabarbara
@eembucsb
who is this year's winner of the
@J_Exp_Biol
Outstanding Paper Prize.
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In their
#JEB100
Commentary
@TurkoLab
@Britney_Firth
@this_is_brit
& co outline why physiological differences between wild & captive animals may occur & discuss strategies to reconcile lab & field results to obtain ecologically relevant data
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The amount of time that a runner's foot is in contact with the ground explains about 70% of the increase in metabolic energy as they shift up through the gears, but you also need to include the volume of muscle that the athlete is using to account...
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Congratulations to the winners of the JEB sponsored 2023 SEB President's Medal (Animal Section) -
@cosimaporteus
and the JEB sponsored 2023 SEB Young Scientist Award Session (Animal Section) - Evan McKenzie
#SEB100
#comparativephysiology
#science
#biology
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Hummingbirds can't fold their wings to manoeuvre through gaps narrower than their wingspan, so how do they get through? Now it turns out that they either fly through sideways, or tuck their wings flat against their bodies to shoot through like a bullet
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Many animals can distinguish the movements of animals from inanimate objects and now Massimo De Agrò & co reveal that jumping spiders detect animal movements with their front-side eyes
Read the full research at
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Issue 12 has closed and issue 13 opened. Ajay Narendra's amazing cover image shows a tiny seed harvesting ant next to the eye of bull ant. The smaller ants have less than 10% of the bull ant's lenses, but still has 80% of the spatial resolution
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We now offer cross-referee commenting to help resolve differences between referees, identify unnecessary or unreasonable requests, or – conversely – highlight valid concerns raised by one referee but overlooked by others. 2/2
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There are plenty of reasons why you might want to change your
#name
and now we are making it easier for you to make your contributions to
#science
traceable by making it possible to change your name on the papers that you have published in
@J_Exp_Biol
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Read Sandy Kawano's Conversation where she talks about Rick Blob helping her to find her inner palaeontologist and the tough decision she had to make when her dream job at George Washington University came up
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Congratulations to this year’s JEB-sponsored Boutilier New Investigator Award winner, Katie Marshall
@ke_marshall
, for her work on cold tolerance in invertebrates.
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In their
#JEB100
Review Ijspeert
@BIOROB_EPFL
& Daley
@birdBiomech
@CIMSUCI
discuss how comparative animal studies and neuromechanical modeling have revealed diversity in the integration of feedback & feedforward control related to various physical factors
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In her ECR Spotlight,
@rowdyscience
talks about her research journey that has taken her from Texas to Canada, winter dormancy in
#fish
& how her mother fostered her love of science by sending her to marine biology camps.
#Science
#Biology
#Zoology
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JEB Editor Pat Wright is presenting the JEB Sponsored Boutilier award to Ken Jeffries
@kenmjeffries
@umanitoba
@CSZ_Sask2023
today, 18 May, 4-5pm (CST)
Find out more about Ken's research at
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Calling all ECRs! If you have a great idea but need to visit another lab to make it happen, look no further. JEB offers Travelling Fellowships of up to £3000 that will allow you to realise your dream.
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Birds have incredibly high blood sugar, but show no ill effects, so what protects them? Csongor Vágási & colleagues
@EvolEcolUBB
wondered if antioxidants might be the solution, but after checking over 1700 birds, it turns out that antioxidants are not
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Breaking News: JEB has switched to continuous publication!
This means that as soon as an article is ready to...
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We are inviting submissions to our 2022 Special Issue: Building New
#Paradigms
in
#ComparativePhysiology
and
#Biomechanics
.
To find out more visit
Submission deadline: Friday 30 July 2021
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Pat Wright presents this year's
@CSZ_Sask2023
@csz_scz
Boutilier Award to
@kenmjeffries
@umanitoba
with CSZ President
@heatheraj80
in Saskatoon, Canada
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The Editors of Journal of Experimental Biology are delighted to congratulate the winner of the 2020 JEB Outstanding Paper Prize, Adam Hardy, for his discovery that round goby fins are as touch sensitivity as primate fingertips
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Today we are marking
#ALD20
by celebrating all of the great JEB women; from our Editors and Ed Board, to the PIs, postdocs, grad students, technicians and undergrad researchers that keep JEB at the forefront of comparative and integrative physiology
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JEB is the leading primary research journal in
#comparativephysiology
and
#biomechanics
, published by the not-for-profit
@Co_Biologists
. Follow us to stay up to date and find out more at
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Recently, JEB broadened its scope to include research that is non-hypothesis driven. In his new Perspective,
@tubuleguy
discusses why he thinks this is wonderful news as novel insights can sometimes come from idea-led experiments
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JEB is expanding its aims & scope to reflect how experimental biology has changed direction and evolved over the past decade. Read the Editorial to find out more
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If you’re working in animal comparative physiology or biomechanics & are within 5 years of setting up your first lab, apply for our ECR Visiting Fellowships & Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants.
Deadline 3 June
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High-altitude deer mice stoke their furnaces with fat to keep warm in thin cold air, but how do they manage the fuel supply?
@SullyLyons
& McClelland reveal that the high-altitude residents transport more fats in their blood than low-altitude deer mice
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If you’re working in animal comparative physiology or biomechanics & are within 5 years of setting up your first lab, apply for our ECR Visiting Fellowships & Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants.
Deadline 3 June
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Congrats to all of the ECRs whose research was shortlisted for the 2023Outstanding Paper Prize
@jarrodpetersen4
@sammiefontaine
@TattersallG
@jenniferleestma
@mattinamarie
@Grev16
@iamamitraizada
@EricksonFishLab
@MarcoGraziano
@XEBernal
@Thuenen_aktuell
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To celebrate
#JEB100
we are launching two new grants to support junior faculty within five years of setting up their first lab: Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants and ECR Visiting Fellowships. Deadline 15 July 2023.
To find out more go to
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The rich natural history of teleosts combined with variable aquatic habitats has produced numerous spectral tuning mechanisms. Although many of these may adaptively tune visual sensitivities, their effects on fitness remain somewhat elusive.
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This practical advice from Doug Fudge and Andy Turko for how to use scientific predictions to design better experiments is sure to be a 'must read' for all new grad students and postdocs changing field
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Congratulations to Alejandro Rico-Guevara
@ecophysicslab
, winner of this year's Carl Gans Award, sponsored by
@J_Exp_Biol
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Read the Special Issue Editorial by Micheal Dickinson, Leslie Vosshall and Julian Dow discussing how the traditional divide between physiology and genetics can now be bridged by new revolutionary genome editing techniques
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.
@LiamTigert
, Patricia Wright & Andy Turko
@amphibiousfish
propose that positive feedback may explain how amphibious behaviour repeatedly evolved in fishes that occupy hypoxic aquatic habitats
Read the full research at
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JEB's new special issue, Predicting the Future: Species Survival in a Changing World, is available now for FREE.
The collection is dedicated to strategies for, and predictions of, the impact of climate change.
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Craig White
@Craig_R_White
& Dustin Marshall
@djm_MEEG
discuss in their
#JEB100
Commentary how they have developed a new theory to explain the evolutionary origin of metabolic scaling, presenting an overview of the approach and its limitations
@MonashUni
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Congratulations to Sulayman (Sully) Lyons, MacMaster University, this year's recipient of the
@csz_scz
Holeton award for his poster, 'From rest to cold-induced VO2max: Lipid utilisation in thermoregulating high-altitude deer mice'
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If you are a grad student or postdoc in need of travel funds to answer a burning question in comparative physiology, don’t miss the next round of Travelling Fellowship applications
We have just opened up the next round for Travelling Fellowships applications. Deadline 18 Oct. Find out more at
Hear from one of our previous recipients about his experience below:
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In his
#JEB100
ECRSpotlight
@bouyoucos
discusses how the film ‘Jaws’ got him interested in marine biology, his work with dogfish & his hopes that the efforts made today will make experimental biology even more inclusive and diverse in the years to come.
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Ants change role as they age and now it turns out that a drop below 4% body fat triggers the switch from stay-at-home worker to intrepid forager
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Read all articles in our special issue
#JEBSI2022
for free.
Includes Reviews, Commentaries and Research Articles on
#biomechanics
, muscle physiology,
#ecophysiology
,
#endocrinology
,
#neurobiology
, cardiovascular physiology and more.
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The JEB Editors are delighted to announce that Hoover Pantoja-Sanchez and Brian Leavell from Ximena Bernal's Purdue lab
@PurdueEEB
are the winners of the 2023 JEB Outstanding Paper Prize. Congratulations!
🏆🎖️
#biology
#neuroetholgy
#science
#zoology
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Are you interested in comparative animal physiology or biomechanics? Follow us here for the latest on our articles, interviews and news from the integrative biology field.
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The thermal image of star-nosed mole by
@TattersallG
on the cover of issue 3 shows how the mammals allow the tentacles on their noses to become as cold as their environment, to minimize heat loss, yet retain the ability to be exquisitely touch sensitive
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Read our Early-career researcher Conversation with Heath McMillan, where he talks about the importance of preprints and the importance of keeping up to date with the pedagogical literature in teaching
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Thank you to
@alexevans91
,
@amphibiousfish
,
@esmccallum
,
@oanybee
,
@Grey_Smatter
,
@singer_sci
and
@vanchico86
for all of you great Outside JEB contributions over the years. We wish you all the best for the future.
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Sounds travels in water at 4.5x the air speed, leaving little time for porpoises to distinguish the echoes of close together objects, but now Malinka and co have discovered that porpoises can pick out objects that are 13.5cm apart by focusing their sonar
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We are sad to announce that Michael Dickinson is standing down as a JEB Editor after 11 years, but are delighted to welcome Sanjay Sane to the team
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Congratulations to Robine Leeuwis (centre) winner of the
#SEBconference
@SEBiology
animal section Irene Manton Poster Prize for her poster Experimental evolution of thermal performance in zebrafish
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All articles in the journal's new
#JEB100
Special Issue, Century of Comparative Biomechanics: Emerging and Historical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Field, are available for
#Free
#biomechanics
#zoology
#biology
#ecology
#evolution
#Engineering
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Living at sub-zero temperatures makes blood viscous, but bald notothens overcome the problem by storing red blood cells in the spleen to reduce their blood viscosity, ready for release when they require additional oxygen transport during exertion
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Mangro rivulus live in toxic swamps and their mitochondria hold the key to their survival. However, the mitochondria of Honduran fish have a completely different survival strategy from the mitochondria of the fish from Belize
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As temperatures continue to rise, animals have two choices: move toward the poles or head up hill.
@austinrspence
shows that flying in thin cold air may be too much for hummingbirds, closing off the the aeronauts' high alt alternative as climate changes
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In the last of our
#JEB100
Conversations, Monica Daley
@birdBiomech
tells us why understanding integration across systems & organizational scales is one of today's big questions & why it is important to recognize failure as an opportunity
#biomechanics
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As part of our
#JEB100
celebrations we are interviewing some of the journal Editors. In issue 15
@almut_kelber
tells us about the incredible sensory worlds inhabited by other animals & how she would love to communicate with them like Dr Dolittle
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Kiisa Nishikawa and Thomas Huck consider insights into muscle mechanics based on new ideas about the giant protein titin as a tunable viscoelastic element in active muscles, and discuss implications for design and control of robotic prostheses.
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Congratulations to Nicholas Wu who won this year's calendar competition with this picture of an Australian green tree frog Litoria caerulea
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Australian jack jumper ants are master navigators, but now it turns out that they do it all without a mental map! The resourceful insects never need to know where they are, they simply move toward attractive views and away from repellent views
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In their
#JEB100
Review Moss,
@sharinade
and Wahlberg compare
#echolocation
in
#bats
and
#toothedwhales
, and how these animals use it to find prey and to negotiate their complex worlds.
#zoology
#comparativephysiology
#science
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Congratulations to all of the 2022 JEB Outstanding Paper Prize shortlisted authors and Samuel Fabian
@samueltfabian
and Mary Sumner, the award winners from
@FlySy_Lab
,
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JEB Editor, Pat Wright, is giving this year’s Bidder Plenary Lecture
#SEBconference
12:20pm (CEST): The invasion of land by amphibious fishes - repeated evolution and remarkable physiological plasticity
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JEB is proud to sponsor the 60th
@csz_scz
annual meeting , starting today. We hope that everyone has a great online experience
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To everyone going to
#SEBconference
in Montpellier, France, don’t miss the fantastic JEB stand. We’re giving away
@J_Exp_Biol
Tshirts, Highlights booklets, pens, notepads and other freebies, so make sure you drop by
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And congrats to the
#ICCPB2019
postdoc winners!
Oral presentation - Alex Zimmer & Blanca Jimeno, with runner up Rebecca Oelkrug
Poster presentation - Agnes Lewden
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In their Genome Editing special issue review,
@jasongallant
and
@alaurenoconnell
discuss using functional genomics to study the convergent evolution of behavior to gain a better understanding of genotype–phenotype relationships and how behavior evolves
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If you’re going to the
@CSZ_Sask2023
meeting next week, make sure you join JEB Editors, Pat Wright, Katie Gilmour & Trish Schulte
@lab_schulte
, at the Meet the Editors event at the poster session, 17 May 6-8pm (CST), where you can also pick up JEB goodies
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Some creatures are covered in eyes but don't have a brain and now Chappell & Speiser show that the animals can see looming objects and process the image in a ring of nerves close to the body wall
The full research is available here:
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Archerfish are exceptional snippers and now it turns out that they use their fins as brakes to counteract the recoil when taking a target out with a jet of water
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Most animals try to optimise the effort they invest when foraging, based on previous experience, but diving shags don't. They just consume whatever comes their way, probably because they feed communally, rather than sticking to their own territories
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In their recent Commentary,
@brentjsinclair
& Co discuss how an insect's water balance can modify its thermal tolerance and response to climate change and propose an approach that could integrate dehydration and temperature leading to better predictions.
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JEB is kicking off its 100th year at the
#SICB2023
meeting in Austin, Texas, 3-7 January, so make sure you stop by booth 507 to pick up some great JEB goodies
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Many
#bats
are struggling and now it turns out that stress dramatically impacts the fertility of male big brown bats, halving their testosterone and reducing their ability to produce sperm within an hour of becoming stressed
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If you’re working in animal comparative physiology & biomechanics & are within 5 years of setting up your first lab, apply for our ECR Visiting Fellowships & Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants.
Deadline 3 June
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JEB is the leading primary research journal in
#comparativephysiology
and
#biomechanics
, published by the not-for-profit
@Co_Biologists
. Follow us to stay up-to-date and find out more at
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Adult western painted turtles have to prepare their hearts to survive a long cold winter without oxygen at the bottom of a pond, and they do so by producing more myoglobin and the proteins necessary for aerobic and anaerobic respiration
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Congratulations to the JEB-sponsored Young Investigator Award winners at this year’s ICN meeting
#icn2022lisbon
:
@JayStafstrom
,
@grace_capshaw
, Mercedes Bendochea
@merbengochea
and Alexandra Yarger (
@Alex_Yarger
@dragonflyneuro
). Don’t miss the symposium at 18:00BST
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In her
#JEB100
Conversation Deputy Editor-in-Chief Sheila Patek
@patek_lab
discusses the power of interdisciplinary research & how she would tell her younger self to believe in her lived experience when encountering career challenges
Read the article here
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In her
#JEB100
ECR Spotlight
@JannekeSchwaner
talks about her journey working with carnivorous plants, kangaroo rats and guineafowl, and how the life of ECRs could be made easier
Read her full research here
#biomechanics
#zoology
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Poison dart frogs impregnate their skins with toxins absorbed from their diet and now Lauren O'Connell and colleagues from Stanford and Ecuador are beginning to identify the proteins that transport the toxins safely from the frogs' guts to their skins
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Mantis shrimps are super smashers but they don't just hammer at random, they target specific shell regions with precision
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In their recent Review,
@AmandaBundgaar2
&co discuss how oxidative damage with variable oxygen levels is lower in ectotherms than endotherms due to intrinsic and plastic differences in their metabolism.
#Biology
#Science
#comparativephysiology
#Zoology
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