@article{MTMT:21723688, title = {Evidence that the central pattern generator for swimming in Tritonia arose from a non-rhythmic neuromodulatory arousal system: Implications for the evolution of specialized Behavior}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/21723688}, author = {Katz, PS and Fickbohm, DJT and Lynn-Bullock, CP}, doi = {10.1668/0003-1569(2001)041[0962:ETTCPG]2.0.CO;2}, journal-iso = {AM ZOOL}, journal = {AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST}, volume = {41}, unique-id = {21723688}, issn = {0003-1569}, year = {2001}, eissn = {2162-4445}, pages = {962-975} } @article{MTMT:26684413, title = {The role of Hox genes in axial patterning in hydra}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/26684413}, author = {Bode, HR}, doi = {10.1668/0003-1569(2001)041[0621:TROHGI]2.0.CO;2}, journal-iso = {AM ZOOL}, journal = {AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST}, volume = {41}, unique-id = {26684413}, issn = {0003-1569}, year = {2001}, eissn = {2162-4445}, pages = {621-628} } @article{MTMT:30498581, title = {An ecological genetic approach to the study of coevolution}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/30498581}, author = {Mauricio, R}, doi = {10.1668/0003-1569(2001)041[0916:AEGATT]2.0.CO;2}, journal-iso = {AM ZOOL}, journal = {AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST}, volume = {41}, unique-id = {30498581}, issn = {0003-1569}, abstract = {Almost forty years ago, Ehrlich and Raven (1964) hypothesized that the great diversity of plants and the herbivores that feed on them arose from a process of coevolution. Plants do possess an amazing diversity of traits that are easily imagined as having arisen from an antagonistic interaction between plants and herbivores. Two basic assumptions lie at the root of most theories of coevolution between plants and their herbivores. First, herbivores are agents of natural selection on plant resistance traits. Second, plants incur a significant fitness cost for possessing these resistance traits. An ecological genetic approach can provide rigorous evidence for these coevolutionary assumptions. In this paper, I present new experimental work on the subject of costs of resistance and review and discuss my own previous work bearing directly on these questions. Using both field experiments on natural populations of the mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) and laboratory experiments using genetically modified plants, I demonstrate that herbivores are exerting selection on both a chemical and physical resistance trait and that there are significant fitness costs to possessing these two traits. These results provide direct confirmation that our current models of the evolution of plant defenses are appropriate.}, year = {2001}, eissn = {2162-4445}, pages = {916-927} } @article{MTMT:32217717, title = {Neuroethology of Melibe leonina swimming Behavior}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32217717}, author = {Watson, WH and Lawrence, KA and Newcomb, JM}, doi = {10.1668/0003-1569(2001)041[1026:NOMLSB]2.0.CO;2}, journal-iso = {AM ZOOL}, journal = {AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST}, volume = {41}, unique-id = {32217717}, issn = {0003-1569}, abstract = {The nudibranch Melibe leonina swims by rhythmically flexing its body from side to side at a frequency of 1 cycle every 2-5 sec. Melibe swim spontaneously, when they are dislodged from the substrate, or when they come in contact with predatory seastars, such as Pycnopodia helianthoides. Intracellular recordings obtained from semi-intact swimming Melibe reveal a population of similar to15 swim motoneurons (SMNs) in each pedal ganglion. In general, SMNs in one pedal ganglion fire out-of-phase with SMNs in the opposite pedal ganglion, resulting in rhythmic side-to-side bending movements. In isolated brains, recordings from SMNs yield similar results, indicating the existence of a swim central pattern generator (CPG). There is no evidence for synaptic interactions between SMNs and either inhibiting or exciting SMNs has no impact on the swim pattern. The SMNs are driven by a CPG consisting of 4 interneurons; 2 in the cerebropleural ganglia and 1 in each pedal ganglion. Appropriate bursting activity in the swim interneurons is necessary for swimming to occur. Either hyperpolarization or depolarization of any of the 4 CPG interneurons disrupts the normal swim pattern. Swimming behavior, and the fictive swim motor program expressed by the isolated brain, are inhibited by light and nitric oxide donors. NADPH-diaphorase staining and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) immunocytochemistry of Melibe brains suggests the source of nitric oxide might be a pair of bilaterally symmetrical cells located in the cerebropleural ganglia.}, keywords = {NEURONS; NITRIC-OXIDE; FEEDING-BEHAVIOR; NEURAL-CONTROL; central pattern generator; Tritonia; CLIONE-LIMACINA; BUCCAL GANGLIA; PTEROPOD MOLLUSK}, year = {2001}, eissn = {2162-4445}, pages = {1026-1035} } @article{MTMT:10141754, title = {Crustacean pigmentary-effector hormones: Chemistry and functions of RPCH, PDH, and related peptides}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/10141754}, author = {Rao, KR}, doi = {10.1668/0003-1569(2001)041[0364:CPEHCA]2.0.CO;2}, journal-iso = {AM ZOOL}, journal = {AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST}, volume = {41}, unique-id = {10141754}, issn = {0003-1569}, year = {2001}, eissn = {2162-4445}, pages = {364-379} } @article{MTMT:10141501, title = {Serotonin and nitric oxide regulate metamorphosis in the marine snail Ilyanassa obsoleta}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/10141501}, author = {Leise, EM and Thavaradhara, K and Durham, NR}, doi = {10.1668/0003-1569(2001)041[0258:SANORM]2.0.CO;2}, journal-iso = {AM ZOOL}, journal = {AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST}, volume = {41}, unique-id = {10141501}, issn = {0003-1569}, year = {2001}, eissn = {2162-4445}, pages = {258-267} } @article{MTMT:32217719, title = {Nitric oxide and cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbioses: Pieces of a puzzle}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32217719}, author = {Trapido-Rosenthal, HG and Sharp, KH and Galloway, TS and Morrall, CE}, doi = {10.1668/0003-1569(2001)041[0247:NOACDS]2.0.CO;2}, journal-iso = {AM ZOOL}, journal = {AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST}, volume = {41}, unique-id = {32217719}, issn = {0003-1569}, abstract = {The presence of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity is demonstrated in the tropical marine cnidarian Aiptasia pallida and in its symbiotic dinofiagellate algae, Symbiodinium bermudense. Enzyme activity was assayed by measuring the conversion of arginine to citrulline. Biochemical characterization of NOS from Aiptasia was characterized with respect to cellular localization, substrate and cofactor requirements, inhibitors, and kinetics. In response to acute temperature shock, anemones retracted their tentacles. Animals subjected to such stress had lower NOS activities than did controls. Treatment with NOS inhibitors caused tentacular retraction, while treatment with the NOS substrate L-arginine inhibited this response to stress, as did treatment with NO donors. These results provide a preliminary biochemical characterization of, and suggest a functional significance for, NOS activity in anthozoan-algal symbiotic assemblages.}, keywords = {IN-VITRO; NERVOUS-SYSTEM; NADPH-DIAPHORASE; BIOCHEMISTRY; ZOOXANTHELLAE; SYNTHASE ACTIVITY; SEA-ANEMONE BEHAVIOR; MARINE COELENTERATES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PRODUCTS}, year = {2001}, eissn = {2162-4445}, pages = {247-257} } @article{MTMT:32217720, title = {NO/cGMP signaling and the flexible organization of motor behavior in crustaceans}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32217720}, author = {Scholz, NL}, doi = {10.1668/0003-1569(2001)041[0292:NCSATF]2.0.CO;2}, journal-iso = {AM ZOOL}, journal = {AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST}, volume = {41}, unique-id = {32217720}, issn = {0003-1569}, abstract = {The basic elements of the NO/cGMP signaling pathway have been identified in the nervous systems of animals from nearly all of the major phyla. In crustaceans, the NO/cGMP pathway is associated with certain fundamental neuronal processes, including sensory integration and the organization and production of motor behavior. Here I review the evidence for NO synthesis and action in crustacean neural networks, with an emphasis on the rhythmic motor circuits of the crab stomatogastric ganglion (STG). In the STG, NO appears to be released as an orthograde transmitter from descending projection neurons. NO's receptor, a cytopasmic isoform of guanylate cyclase (sGCI, is expressed in a subset of the cells that participate in the gastric mill and pyloric central pattern generating networks. In spontaneously-active, in vitro preparations of the STG, pharmacological inhibitors of the NO/cGMP pathway cause the two rhythmic motor patterns to collapse into a single conjoint rhythm. Parallel motor output is restored when the ganglion is returned to normal saline. Although precise mechanisms have yet to be determined, these data suggest that NO and cGMP play an important role in the functional organization of STG networks. The STG, as well as other crustacean models, provides a promising context for studying the physiological and behavioral aspects of NO-mediated signaling in the nervous system.}, keywords = {NITRIC-OXIDE SYNTHASE; NEURAL NETWORKS; HOMARUS-AMERICANUS; GUANYLATE-CYCLASE; STOMATOGASTRIC NERVOUS-SYSTEM; NADPH-DIAPHORASE ACTIVITY; SEQUENTIAL DEVELOPMENTAL ACQUISITION; PATTERN-GENERATING NETWORKS; SINGLE EMBRYONIC NETWORK}, year = {2001}, eissn = {2162-4445}, pages = {292-303} } @article{MTMT:32217721, title = {Gaseous transmission across time and species}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32217721}, author = {Moroz, LL}, doi = {10.1668/0003-1569(2001)041[0304:GTATAS]2.0.CO;2}, journal-iso = {AM ZOOL}, journal = {AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST}, volume = {41}, unique-id = {32217721}, issn = {0003-1569}, abstract = {This paper reviews comparative and evolutionary aspects of nitric oxide (NO) signaling in major systematic groups such as prokaryotes, plants, fungi and invertebrate animals. It appears that NO-mediated signaling can be as old as cellular organization itself. Both non-enzymatic and enzymatic (in addition to NOS) synthetic pathways can contribute to NO formation in living systems. The evolutionary roots of this means of gaseous signaling can be traced back to the role of NO in non-immune defensive mechanisms and the role of NO in control of gene expression, chemical ecology and, perhaps, symbiotic interactions in the ancient prokaryotic world. These functions of NO can be preserved in practically all modern taxons and be widely expressed in the nervous system. However, it is hypothesized that neuronal NO signaling is a relatively new evolutionary invention and it is likely to have happened several times during animal evolution. Although a comparative analysis of neuronal NO signaling is still in its early stages, the hypothesis is proposed that in many invertebrate lineages one of the primary neuronal functions of NO was regulation of feeding patterns, chemosensory processing and neurodevelopment.}, keywords = {NITRIC-OXIDE SYNTHASE; NERVOUS-SYSTEM; HYDROGEN-SULFIDE; CARBON-MONOXIDE; CYCLIC-GMP; Parasitic nematode; SALIVARY-GLANDS; organic nitrates; NEURONAL NADPH DIAPHORASE}, year = {2001}, eissn = {2162-4445}, pages = {304-320} } @article{MTMT:20236572, title = {Insulin through the ages: Phylogeny of a growth promoting and metabolic regulatory hormone}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/20236572}, author = {Chan, SJ and Steiner, DF}, journal-iso = {AM ZOOL}, journal = {AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST}, volume = {40}, unique-id = {20236572}, issn = {0003-1569}, year = {2000}, eissn = {2162-4445}, pages = {213-222} }