Highlights•The gut microbiota is emerging as a regulator of neurophysiology and
behavior.•Similar processes may govern the gut microbiota—brain axis across mammals …

Fiducials are artificial features with a variety of uses in computer vision such as object
tracking and localization. We propose the idea of flexible tag layouts for visual fiducial …

The growing gap between new evidence of pesticide toxicity in honeybees and conventional
toxicological assays recommended by regulatory test guidelines emphasizes the need to …

Deep Convolutional Neuronal Networks (DCNNs) are showing remarkable performance on
many computer vision tasks. Due to their large parameter space, they require many labeled …

From cells in tissue, to bird flocks, to human crowds, living systems display a stunning variety
of collective behaviors. Yet quantifying such phenomena first requires tracking a significant …

In complex societies, individuals' roles are reflected by interactions with other conspecifics.
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) generally change tasks as they age, but developmental …

Computational approaches to the analysis of collective behavior in social insects
increasingly rely on motion paths as an intermediate data layer from which one can infer …

Barcode-based tracking of individuals is revolutionizing animal behavior studies, but further
progress hinges on whether in addition to determining an individual's location, specific …

The evolutionary changes from solitary to eusocial living in vertebrates and invertebrates are
associated with the diversification of social interactions and the development of queen and …

Highlights•An automated quantification method for pig social interactions was
developed.•The automated method is based on convolutional deep neural …