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Behavior, Animal

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    Pereira T, Tabris N, Matsliah A, Turner D, Li J, Ravindranath S, Papadoyannis E, Normand E, Deutsch D, Wang Y, McKenzie-Smith G, Mitelut C, Castro M, D’Uva J, Kislin M, Sanes D, Kocher S, Wang S, Falkner A, Shaevitz J, Murthy M. SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking. Nat Methods. 2022;19(4):486–495. PMCID: PMC9007740
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    Overman K, Choi D, Leung K, Shaevitz J, Berman G. Measuring the repertoire of age-related behavioral changes in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Comput Biol. 2022;18(2):e1009867. PMCID: PMC8903287
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    Zhao Z, McBride C. Evolution of olfactory circuits in insects. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2020;206(3):353–367. PMCID: PMC7192870
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    Sohrabi S, Mor D, Kaletsky R, Keyes W, Murphy C. High-throughput behavioral screen in C. elegans reveals Parkinson’s disease drug candidates. Commun Biol. 2021;4(1):203. PMCID: PMC7884385
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    Moore R, Kaletsky R, Lesnik C, Cota V, Blackman E, Parsons L, Gitai Z, Murphy C. The role of the Cer1 transposon in horizontal transfer of transgenerational memory. Cell. 2021;184(18):4697–4712.e18. PMCID: PMC8812995
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    Salomons H, Smith K, Callahan-Beckel M, Callahan M, Levy K, Kennedy B, Bray E, Gnanadesikan G, Horschler D, Gruen M, Tan J, White P, vonHoldt B, MacLean E, Hare B. Cooperative Communication with Humans Evolved to Emerge Early in Domestic Dogs. Curr Biol. 2021;31(14):3137–3144.e11. PMCID: PMC8610089
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    Chen Y-C, Seyedsayamdost M, Ringstad N. A microbial metabolite synergizes with endogenous serotonin to trigger reproductive behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;117(48):30589–30598. PMCID: PMC7720207
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    Pereira T, Shaevitz J, Murthy M. Quantifying behavior to understand the brain. Nat Neurosci. 2020;23(12):1537–1549. PMCID: PMC7780298
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    Klibaite U, Shaevitz J. Paired fruit flies synchronize behavior: Uncovering social interactions in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Comput Biol. 2020;16(10):e1008230. PMCID: PMC7567355
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    Kapheim K, Jones B, Pan H, Li C, Harpur B, Kent C, Zayed A, Ioannidis P, Waterhouse R, Kingwell C, Stolle E, Avalos A, Zhang G, McMillan O, Wcislo W. Developmental plasticity shapes social traits and selection in a facultatively eusocial bee. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;117(24):13615–13625. PMCID: PMC7306772
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    Deverett B, Kislin M, Tank D, Wang S. Cerebellar disruption impairs working memory during evidence accumulation. Nat Commun. 2019;10(1):3128. PMCID: PMC6635393
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    vonHoldt B, DeCandia A, Heppenheimer E, Janowitz-Koch I, Shi R, Zhou H, German C, Brzeski K, Cassidy K, Stahler D, Sinsheimer J. Heritability of interpack aggression in a wild pedigreed population of North American grey wolves. Mol Ecol. 2020;29(10):1764–1775. PMCID: PMC7299816
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    MacLean E, Snyder-Mackler N, vonHoldt B, Serpell J. Highly heritable and functionally relevant breed differences in dog behaviour. Proc Biol Sci. 2019;286(1912):20190716. PMCID: PMC6790757
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    Moore R, Kaletsky R, Murphy C. Piwi/PRG-1 Argonaute and TGF-β Mediate Transgenerational Learned Pathogenic Avoidance. Cell. 2019;177(7):1827–1841.e12. PMCID: PMC7518193
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    Tandon D, Ressler K, Petticord D, Papa A, Jiranek J, Wilkinson R, Kartzinel R, Ostrander E, Burney N, Borden C, Udell M, vonHoldt B. Homozygosity for Mobile Element Insertions Associated with Could Predict Success in Assistance Dog Training Programs. Genes (Basel). 2019;10(6). PMCID: PMC6627829
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    Liu M, Sharma A, Shaevitz J, Leifer A. Temporal processing and context dependency in response to mechanosensation. Elife. 2018;7. PMCID: PMC6054533
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    Pereira T, Aldarondo D, Willmore L, Kislin M, Wang S, Murthy M, Shaevitz J. Fast animal pose estimation using deep neural networks. Nat Methods. 2019;16(1):117–125. PMCID: PMC6899221
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    Piet A, Hady A, Brody C. Rats adopt the optimal timescale for evidence integration in a dynamic environment. Nat Commun. 2018;9(1):4265. PMCID: PMC6189050
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    Badura A, Verpeut J, Metzger J, Pereira T, Pisano T, Deverett B, Bakshinskaya D, Wang S. Normal cognitive and social development require posterior cerebellar activity. Elife. 2018;7. PMCID: PMC6195348
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    Yartsev M, Hanks T, Yoon A, Brody C. Causal contribution and dynamical encoding in the striatum during evidence accumulation. Elife. 2018;7. PMCID: PMC6147735
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    Deverett B, Koay S, Oostland M, Wang S. Cerebellar involvement in an evidence-accumulation decision-making task. Elife. 2018;7. PMCID: PMC6105309
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    Cande J, Namiki S, Qiu J, Korff W, Card G, Shaevitz J, Stern D, Berman G. Optogenetic dissection of descending behavioral control in . Elife. 2018;7. PMCID: PMC6031430
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    Akrami A, Kopec C, Diamond M, Brody C. Posterior parietal cortex represents sensory history and mediates its effects on behaviour. Nature. 2018;554(7692):368–372. PMID: 29414944
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    Klibaite U, Berman G, Cande J, Stern D, Shaevitz J. An unsupervised method for quantifying the behavior of paired animals. Phys Biol. 2017;14(1):015006. PMCID: PMC5414632
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    Calhoun A, Murthy M. Quantifying behavior to solve sensorimotor transformations: advances from worms and flies. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2017;46:90–98. PMCID: PMC5765764
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    vonHoldt B, Shuldiner E, Koch I, Kartzinel R, Hogan A, Brubaker L, Wanser S, Stahler D, Wynne C, Ostrander E, Sinsheimer J, Udell M. Structural variants in genes associated with human Williams-Beuren syndrome underlie stereotypical hypersociability in domestic dogs. Sci Adv. 2017;3(7):e1700398. PMCID: PMC5517105
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    Giovannucci A, Pnevmatikakis E, Deverett B, Pereira T, Fondriest J, Brady M, Wang S, Abbas W, Parés P, Masip D. Automated gesture tracking in head-fixed mice. J Neurosci Methods. 2018;300:184–195. PMCID: PMC7957302
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    Miller K, Botvinick M, Brody C. Dorsal hippocampus contributes to model-based planning. Nat Neurosci. 2017;20(9):1269–1276. PMCID: PMC5575950
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    Scott B, Constantinople C, Akrami A, Hanks T, Brody C, Tank D. Fronto-parietal Cortical Circuits Encode Accumulated Evidence with a Diversity of Timescales. Neuron. 2017;95(2):385–398.e5. PMCID: PMC9453285
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    Duncan J, Stoller M, Francl A, Tissir F, Devenport D, Deans M. Celsr1 coordinates the planar polarity of vestibular hair cells during inner ear development. Dev Biol. 2017;423(2):126–137. PMCID: PMC5369242
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    Berman G, Bialek W, Shaevitz J. Predictability and hierarchy in Drosophila behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016;113(42):11943–11948. PMCID: PMC5081631
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    Ghosh R, Bloom J, Mohammadi A, Schumer M, Andolfatto P, Ryu W, Kruglyak L. Genetics of Intraspecies Variation in Avoidance Behavior Induced by a Thermal Stimulus in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 2015;200(4):1327–39. PMCID: PMC4574258
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    Nguyen J, Shipley F, Linder A, Plummer G, Liu M, Setru S, Shaevitz J, Leifer A. Whole-brain calcium imaging with cellular resolution in freely behaving Caenorhabditis elegans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016;113(8):E1074–81. PMCID: PMC4776509
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    McBride C, Singer M. Field studies reveal strong postmating isolation between ecologically divergent butterfly populations. PLoS Biol. 2010;8(10):e1000529. PMCID: PMC2964332
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    López-Panadès E, Gavis E, Casacuberta E. Specific Localization of the Drosophila Telomere Transposon Proteins and RNAs, Give Insight in Their Behavior, Control and Telomere Biology in This Organism. PLoS One. 2015;10(6):e0128573. PMCID: PMC4467039
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    Schoenfeld T, Kloth A, Hsueh B, Runkle M, Kane G, Wang S, Gould E. Gap junctions in the ventral hippocampal-medial prefrontal pathway are involved in anxiety regulation. J Neurosci. 2014;34(47):15679–88. PMCID: PMC4236399
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    Brunton B, Botvinick M, Brody C. Rats and humans can optimally accumulate evidence for decision-making. Science. 2013;340(6128):95–8. PMID: 23559254
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    Erlich J, Brunton B, Duan C, Hanks T, Brody C. Distinct effects of prefrontal and parietal cortex inactivations on an accumulation of evidence task in the rat. Elife. 2015;4. PMCID: PMC4392479
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    Murthy M, Fiete I, Laurent G. Testing odor response stereotypy in the Drosophila mushroom body. Neuron. 2008;59(6):1009–23. PMCID: PMC2654402
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