Role of tyramine in calcium dynamics of GABAergic neurons and escape behavior in Caenorhabditis elegansZoological Letters - Tập 4 - Trang 1-14 - 2018
Yuko Kagawa-Nagamura, Keiko Gengyo-Ando, Masamichi Ohkura, Junichi Nakai
Tyramine, known as a “trace amine” in mammals, modulates a wide range of behavior in invertebrates; however, the underlying cellular and circuit mechanisms are not well understood. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), tyramine affects key behaviors, including foraging, feeding, and escape responses. The touch-evoked backward escape response is often coupled with a sharp omega turn ...... hiện toàn bộ
High diversity in species, reproductive modes and distribution within the Paramacrobiotus richtersi complex (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae)Zoological Letters - Tập 5 - Trang 1-28 - 2019
Roberto Guidetti, Michele Cesari, Roberto Bertolani, Tiziana Altiero, Lorena Rebecchi
For many years, Paramacrobiotus richtersi was reported to consist of populations with different chromosome numbers and reproductive modes. To clarify the relationships among different populations, the type locality of the species (Clare Island, Ireland) and several Italian localities were sampled. Populations were investigated with an integrated approach, using morphological (LM, CLSM, SEM), morph...... hiện toàn bộ
Phylogenetic position of Loricifera inferred from nearly complete 18S and 28S rRNA gene sequencesZoological Letters - Tập 1 - Trang 1-9 - 2015
Hiroshi Yamasaki, Shinta Fujimoto, Katsumi Miyazaki
Loricifera is an enigmatic metazoan phylum; its morphology appeared to place it with Priapulida and Kinorhyncha in the group Scalidophora which, along with Nematoida (Nematoda and Nematomorpha), comprised the group Cycloneuralia. Scarce molecular data have suggested an alternative phylogenetic hypothesis, that the phylum Loricifera is a sister taxon to Nematomorpha, although the actual phylogeneti...... hiện toàn bộ
Cellular and molecular aspects of oocyte maturation and fertilization: a perspective from the actin cytoskeletonZoological Letters - - 2020
Luigia Santella, Nunzia Limatola, Jong Tai Chun
Much of the scientific knowledge on oocyte maturation, fertilization, and embryonic development has come from the experiments using gametes of marine organisms that reproduce by external fertilization. In particular, echinoderm eggs have enabled the study of structural and biochemical changes related to meiotic maturation and fertilization owing to the abundant availability of large and transparen...... hiện toàn bộ
Midnight/midday-synchronized expression of cryptochrome genes in the eyes of three teleost species, zebrafish, goldfish, and medakaZoological Letters - Tập 8 - Trang 1-17 - 2022
Marika Nakagawa, Keiko Okano, Yuya Saratani, Yosuke Shoji, Toshiyuki Okano
Photoperiodic responses are observed in many organisms living in the temperate zones. The circadian clock is involved in photoperiodic time measurement; however, the underlying molecular mechanism for detection of the day length remains unknown. We previously compared the expression profiles of the Cryptochrome(Cry) genes in the zebrafish eye and reported that Cry1ab has a double peak with variabl...... hiện toàn bộ
Whip spiders (Amblypygi) become water-repellent by a colloidal secretion that self-assembles into hierarchical microstructuresZoological Letters - Tập 2 - Trang 1-10 - 2016
Jonas O. Wolff, Thomas Schwaha, Michael Seiter, Stanislav N. Gorb
Among both plants and arthropods, super-hydrophobic surfaces have evolved that enable self-cleaning, locomotion on water surfaces, or plastron respiration. Super-hydrophobicity is achieved by a combination of non-polar substances and complex micro- and nano-structures, usually acquired by growing processes or the deposition of powder-like materials. Here we report on a multi-phasic secretion in wh...... hiện toàn bộ
Infection prevalence of Sodalis symbionts among stinkbugsZoological Letters - Tập 1 - Trang 1-7 - 2015
Takahiro Hosokawa, Nahomi Kaiwa, Yu Matsuura, Yoshitomo Kikuchi, Takema Fukatsu
Diverse insects and other organisms are associated with microbial symbionts, which often significantly contribute to growth and survival of their hosts and/or drastically affect phenotypes of their hosts in a variety of ways. Sodalis glossinidius was first identified as a facultative bacterial symbiont of tsetse flies, and recent studies revealed that Sodalis-allied bacteria encompass diverse ecol...... hiện toàn bộ