This valuable work shows that subcortically-generated behaviors, like grooming, can have widespread representations in cortical activity. While the evidence is solid, additional analyses are necessary ...

A Japanese laboratory claims it is the first time a behavior has been transmitted between species, achieved by manipulating a ...

Researchers found that activating a single gene in flies changed their courtship behavior, allowing one species to mimic ...

As with any innate behavior, it is essential to first understand the evolutionary basis. From an evolutionary perspective, quick judgments based on appearance could have had survival benefits.

Intriguingly, virgin female mice carrying the mutation did not show depression-like behavior. “These studies show that the characteristics and behaviors seen in humans with a defective TRPC5 gene were ...

By flipping a single genetic switch, researchers made one fruit fly species adopt the gift-giving courtship of another, ...

The finding upends longstanding assumptions that nest building is an innate behavior based on the birds’ environment and adds to a growing list of behaviors that make up bird culture.

Researchers in Japan have genetically transferred a unique courtship behavior from one fruit fly species to another.