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The biarticularity of the gastrocnemii muscles provides relevant mechanisms for managing drop-like gait perturbations in humans
ABSTRACTThis study investigated the ankle-to-knee and knee-to-ankle joint energy transfer via the biarticular gastrocnemii muscles during unpredictable and adapted drop-like gait perturbations to understand how biarticular mechanisms of the gastro...
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Posted: May 20, 2026, 12:00 am
Flight in the dark: different responses to darkness in flying insects
ABSTRACTVision-based stabilization is crucial for flying animals, and among these, flying insects provide a range of experimental systems for studying vision-related locomotion resilience and sensory integration; for example, under low-light condi...
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Posted: May 20, 2026, 12:00 am
ECR Spotlight – Stefane Saruhashi
ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology...
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Posted: May 19, 2026, 12:00 am
Body anthropometry affects spatiotemporal preferences in walking and running
ABSTRACTDespite a general similarity of walking and running gaits in healthy humans, spatiotemporal parameters vary considerably between individuals. While this variation is well recognized, the underlying causes are poorly understood. In this stu...
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Posted: May 19, 2026, 12:00 am
Aversive memory and extinction learning for noxious stimuli and aversive tastants in bumblebees
ABSTRACTRapid learning of aversive stimuli is adaptive, but the persistence of the avoidance response in the absence of further reinforcement might depend on the severity of the adverse experience. For example, an experience involving injury would...
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Posted: May 19, 2026, 12:00 am
Metabolic acclimation to captivity in highveld mole-rats ( Cryptomys hottentotus pretoriae ) is driven by sex-specific body mass increases
ABSTRACTCaptivity represents a profound environmental shift that can induce physiological acclimation, yet its effects on metabolic rate remain poorly resolved, particularly in subterranean mammals. African mole-rats (Bathyergidae) are frequently ...
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Posted: May 19, 2026, 12:00 am
Oxygen availability and oxygen delivery but not oxidative stress shape heat tolerance in diploid and triploid zebrafish larvae
ABSTRACTThe oxygen- and capacity-limited thermal tolerance (OCLTT) hypothesis predicts that limits to oxygen availability or delivery set upper thermal boundaries. We tested this by manipulating oxygen concentration and delivery capacity (comparin...
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Posted: May 19, 2026, 12:00 am
Strengthening India's field biology infrastructure: establishing a network of field stations
ABSTRACTIndia harbours diverse ecosystems – ranging from alpine meadows to coral reefs, grasslands to wetlands, deserts to tropical rainforest – each supporting unique flora and fauna. This exceptional diversity is compressed into a relatively sma...
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Posted: May 19, 2026, 12:00 am
