In a recent article published in Nature Communications, researchers used Camponotus fellah (carpenter ants) as a model species to perform behavioral tracking and ribonucleic acid-sequencing (RNA-seq) ...

Periods of isolation during which animals have no social contact are common in the design of behavioral experiments. They are used, for example, to test memory and recognition responses, or to ensure ...

In efforts to understand the neural basis for loneliness, researchers have found a molecular indicator and regulator of social isolation in female mice. The new study reports that social ...

When two organisms typically do not interbreed with one another, they are considered different species. But what are the reproductive barriers that isolate one population from another? Hear the ...

Fragmentation of habitat has been found to create dispersal barriers for some species. Less well understood is the possibility that physical barriers to dispersal between habitat patches might be ...

Kanye West, the rapper who recently changed his name to Ye, has an unusual namesake at an Australian zoo who has been causing a lot of problems lately. The large American alligator has been displaying ...

During a recent lecture on evolution, I had to explain the differences between three different processes known as geographic, temporal and behavioral isolation. Geographic isolation is the easiest of ...

Changes in housing density, including individual housing, are commonly necessary in animal research. Obtaining reproducibility and translational validity in biomedical research requires an ...