Over the past years, numerous methods have emerged to automate the quantification of
animal behavior at a resolution not previously imaginable. This has opened up a new field of …

The need for high-throughput, precise, and meaningful methods for measuring behavior has
been amplified by our recent successes in measuring and manipulating neural circuitry. The …

Communication plays an integral role in human social dynamics and is impaired in several
neurodevelopmental disorders. Mice are used to study the neurobiology of social behavior; …

Acoustic signals serve communication within and across species throughout the animal
kingdom. Studying the genetics, evolution, and neurobiology of acoustic communication …

Some rodents produce ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) for social communication using an
aerodynamic whistle, a unique vocal production mechanism not found in other animals. The …

Acceleration of global warming has emerged as one of the biggest environmental
challenges facing poultry farming. In heat stressed flocks, massive mortality rates and …

Conventionally, the size, shape, and biomechanics of cartilages are determined by their
voluminous extracellular matrix. By contrast, we found that multiple murine cartilages consist …

Mutations in SHH and several other genes encoding components of the Hedgehog
signaling pathway have been associated with holoprosencephaly syndromes, with …

In vertebrates, head and trunk muscles develop from different mesodermal populations and
are regulated by distinct genetic networks. Neck muscles at the head-trunk interface remain …

House mice, like many tetrapods, produce multielement calls consisting of individual
vocalizations repeated in rhythmic series. In this study, we examine the multielement …