Animals evolved in complex environments, producing a wide range of behaviors, including
navigation, foraging, prey capture, and conspecific interactions, which vary over timescales …

Neuroscientists have long studied species with convenient biological features to discover
how behavior emerges from conserved molecular, neural, and circuit level processes. With …

Rhythmic behaviors (eg, walking, breathing, and chewing) are produced by central pattern
generator (CPG) circuits. These circuits are highly dynamic due to a multitude of input they …

As organisms invade new ecological niches, new species are formed. Simultaneously,
behavioral repertoires diverge to adapt to new environments and reproductive partners …

Vertebrate nervous systems can generate a remarkable diversity of behaviors. However, our
understanding of how behaviors may have evolved in the chordate lineage is limited by the …

In this study we focus on two subnetworks common in the circuitry of swim central pattern
generators (CPGs) in the sea slugs, Melibe leonina and Dendronotus iris and show that they …

We present a novel set of quantitative measures for “likeness”(error function) designed to
alleviate the time-consuming and subjective nature of manually comparing biological …

How evolutionary changes in genes and neurons encode species variation in complex
motor behaviors is largely unknown. Here, we develop genetic tools that permit a neural …

The geneticist Thomas Dobzhansky famously declared:'Nothing in biology makes sense
except in the light of evolution'. A key evolutionary adaptation of Metazoa is directed …

The purpose of this paper is trifold--to serve as an instructive resource and a reference
catalog for biologically plausible modeling with i) conductance-based models, coupled with …