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    Males as somatic investment in a parthenogenetic nematode (2019)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    In: Science
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    Publication Date: 2019
    Description: 〈p〉We report the reproductive strategy of the nematode 〈i〉Mesorhabditis belari〈/i〉. This species produces only 9% males, whose sperm is necessary to fertilize and activate the eggs. However, most of the fertilized eggs develop without using the sperm DNA and produce female individuals. Only in 9% of eggs is the male DNA utilized, producing sons. We found that mixing of parental genomes only gives rise to males because the Y-bearing sperm of males are much more competent than the X-bearing sperm for penetrating the eggs. In this previously unrecognized strategy, asexual females produce few sexual males whose genes never reenter the female pool. Here, production of males is of interest only if sons are more likely to mate with their sisters. Using game theory, we show that in this context, the production of 9% males by 〈i〉M. belari〈/i〉 females is an evolutionary stable strategy.〈/p〉
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    Loss of sex discrimination and male-male aggression in mice deficient for TRP2 (2002)
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    Publication Date: 2002-02-02
    Description: The mouse vomeronasal organ (VNO) is thought to mediate social behaviors and neuroendocrine changes elicited by pheromonal cues. The molecular mechanisms underlying the sensory response to pheromones and the behavioral repertoire induced through the VNO are not fully characterized. Using the tools of mouse genetics and multielectrode recording, we demonstrate that the sensory activation of VNO neurons requires TRP2, a putative ion channel of the transient receptor potential family that is expressed exclusively in these neurons. Moreover, we show that male mice deficient in TRP2 expression fail to display male-male aggression, and they initiate sexual and courtship behaviors toward both males and females. Our study suggests that, in the mouse, sensory activation of the VNO is essential for sex discrimination of conspecifics and thus ensures gender-specific behavior.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Stowers, Lisa -- Holy, Timothy E -- Meister, Markus -- Dulac, Catherine -- Koentges, Georgy -- DC03903/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Feb 22;295(5559):1493-500. Epub 2002 Jan 31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11823606" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Aggression ; Animals ; Chemoreceptor Cells/*physiology ; Crosses, Genetic ; Cues ; Electrophysiology ; Electroporation ; Female ; Gene Targeting ; Male ; Maternal Behavior ; Membrane Proteins/*genetics/*physiology ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Mutation ; Neurons, Afferent/*physiology ; Odors ; Olfactory Bulb/physiology ; Olfactory Mucosa/physiology ; Pheromones/*physiology/urine ; Sex Characteristics ; *Sexual Behavior, Animal ; Signal Transduction ; TRPC Cation Channels ; Video Recording ; Vomeronasal Organ/*innervation/physiology
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    Responses of vomeronasal neurons to natural stimuli (2000)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2000-09-01
    Description: The vomeronasal organ (VNO) of mammals plays an essential role in the detection of pheromones. We obtained simultaneous recordings of action potentials from large subsets of VNO neurons. These cells responded to components of urine by increasing their firing rate. This chemosensory activation required phospholipase C function. Unlike most other sensory neurons, VNO neurons did not adapt under prolonged stimulus exposure. The full time course of the VNO spiking response is captured by a simple quantitative model of ligand binding. Many individual VNO neurons were strongly selective for either male or female mouse urine, with the effective concentrations differing as much as a thousandfold. These results establish a framework for understanding sensory coding in the vomeronasal system.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Holy, T E -- Dulac, C -- Meister, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Sep 1;289(5484):1569-72.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. timholy@mcb.harvard.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10968796" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials ; Animals ; Chemoreceptor Cells/metabolism ; Female ; Kinetics ; Ligands ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred DBA ; Models, Biological ; Neurons, Afferent/*physiology ; Pheromones/physiology/*urine ; Potassium/pharmacology ; Signal Transduction ; Type C Phospholipases/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Urine ; Vomeronasal Organ/*physiology
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    Molecular identification of a retinal cell type that responds to upward motion (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2008-03-28
    Description: The retina contains complex circuits of neurons that extract salient information from visual inputs. Signals from photoreceptors are processed by retinal interneurons, integrated by retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and sent to the brain by RGC axons. Distinct types of RGC respond to different visual features, such as increases or decreases in light intensity (ON and OFF cells, respectively), colour or moving objects. Thus, RGCs comprise a set of parallel pathways from the eye to the brain. The identification of molecular markers for RGC subsets will facilitate attempts to correlate their structure with their function, assess their synaptic inputs and targets, and study their diversification. Here we show, by means of a transgenic marking method, that junctional adhesion molecule B (JAM-B) marks a previously unrecognized class of OFF RGCs in mice. These cells have asymmetric dendritic arbors aligned in a dorsal-to-ventral direction across the retina. Their receptive fields are also asymmetric and respond selectively to stimuli moving in a soma-to-dendrite direction; because the lens reverses the image of the world on the retina, these cells detect upward motion in the visual field. Thus, JAM-B identifies a unique population of RGCs in which structure corresponds remarkably to function.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kim, In-Jung -- Zhang, Yifeng -- Yamagata, Masahito -- Meister, Markus -- Sanes, Joshua R -- England -- Nature. 2008 Mar 27;452(7186):478-82. doi: 10.1038/nature06739.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18368118" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Biomarkers/analysis ; Cell Adhesion Molecules/*metabolism ; Cell Count ; Cell Shape ; Dendrites/metabolism ; Immunoglobulins ; Mice ; Models, Neurological ; *Motion ; Photic Stimulation ; Retina/*cytology/radiation effects ; Retinal Ganglion Cells/*cytology/*metabolism/radiation effects
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    Synchronous bursts of action potentials in ganglion cells of the developing mammalian retina (1991)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 1991-05-17
    Description: The development of orderly connections in the mammalian visual system depends on action potentials in the optic nerve fibers, even before the retina receives visual input. In particular, it has been suggested that correlated firing of retinal ganglion cells in the same eye directs the segregation of their synaptic terminals into eye-specific layers within the lateral geniculate nucleus. Such correlations in electrical activity were found by simultaneous recording of the extracellular action potentials of up to 100 ganglion cells in the isolated retina of the newborn ferret and the fetal cat. These neurons fired spikes in nearly synchronous bursts lasting a few seconds and separated by 1 to 2 minutes of silence. Individual bursts consisted of a wave of excitation, several hundred micrometers wide, sweeping across the retina at about 100 micrometers per second. These concerted firing patterns have the appropriate spatial and temporal properties to guide the refinement of connections between the retina and the lateral geniculate nucleus.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Meister, M -- Wong, R O -- Baylor, D A -- Shatz, C J -- EY 05750/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1991 May 17;252(5008):939-43.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2035024" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials/drug effects ; Aging ; Animals ; Animals, Newborn ; Calcium/pharmacology ; Cats ; Electrophysiology/methods ; Ferrets ; In Vitro Techniques ; Retina/*growth & development ; Retinal Ganglion Cells/drug effects/*physiology ; Vision, Ocular
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    Postdoc tuition at stanford (1990)
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    Publication Date: 1990-06-08
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Makino, C L -- Karpen, J W -- Meister, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1990 Jun 8;248(4960):1176.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17809888" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
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    Orientation columns in the mouse superior colliculus (2014)
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    Publication Date: 2014-12-18
    Description: More than twenty types of retinal ganglion cells conduct visual information from the eye to the rest of the brain. Each retinal ganglion cell type tessellates the retina in a regular mosaic, so that every point in visual space is processed for visual primitives such as contrast and motion. This information flows to two principal brain centres: the visual cortex and the superior colliculus. The superior colliculus plays an evolutionarily conserved role in visual behaviours, but its functional architecture is poorly understood. Here we report on population recordings of visual responses from neurons in the mouse superior colliculus. Many neurons respond preferentially to lines of a certain orientation or movement axis. We show that cells with similar orientation preferences form large patches that span the vertical thickness of the retinorecipient layers. This organization is strikingly different from the randomly interspersed orientation preferences in the mouse's visual cortex; instead, it resembles the orientation columns observed in the visual cortices of large mammals. Notably, adjacent superior colliculus orientation columns have only limited receptive field overlap. This is in contrast to the organization of visual cortex, where each point in the visual field activates neurons with all preferred orientations. Instead, the superior colliculus favours specific contour orientations within approximately 30 degrees regions of the visual field, a finding with implications for behavioural responses mediated by this brain centre.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Feinberg, Evan H -- Meister, Markus -- T32 NS007484/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Mar 12;519(7542):229-32. doi: 10.1038/nature14103. Epub 2014 Dec 17.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Brain Science, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. ; 1] Center for Brain Science, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA [2] Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25517100" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Brain Mapping ; Calcium/analysis/metabolism ; Female ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Motion ; Neurons/physiology ; Orientation/*physiology ; Photic Stimulation ; Superior Colliculi/anatomy & histology/*cytology/*physiology ; Visual Cortex/anatomy & histology/cytology/physiology ; Visual Fields/physiology ; Wakefulness
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    Concerted signaling by retinal ganglion cells (1995)
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    Publication Date: 1995-11-17
    Description: To analyze the rules that govern communication between eye and brain, visual responses were recorded from an intact salamander retina. Parallel observation of many retinal ganglion cells with a microelectrode array showed that nearby neurons often fired synchronously, with spike delays of less than 10 milliseconds. The frequency of such synchronous spikes exceeded the correlation expected from a shared visual stimulus up to 20-fold. Synchronous firing persisted under a variety of visual stimuli and accounted for the majority of action potentials recorded. Analysis of receptive fields showed that concerted spikes encoded information not carried by individual cells; they may represent symbols in a multineuronal code for vision.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Meister, M -- Lagnado, L -- Baylor, D A -- EY01543/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- EY05750/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- EY10020/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1995 Nov 17;270(5239):1207-10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7502047" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials ; Animals ; In Vitro Techniques ; Microelectrodes ; Photic Stimulation ; Retinal Ganglion Cells/*physiology ; Signal Transduction ; Urodela ; Vision, Ocular/*physiology
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    Gap junctions and intercellular communications (1994)
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    Publication Date: 1994-08-19
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Meister, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Aug 19;265(5175):1018; author reply 1019-20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8066437" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Astrocytes/metabolism ; *Cell Communication ; Diffusion ; Gap Junctions/*metabolism/ultrastructure ; Oligodendroglia/metabolism ; Rabbits
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    Rapid neural coding in the retina with relative spike latencies (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2008-02-23
    Description: Natural vision is a highly dynamic process. Frequent body, head, and eye movements constantly bring new images onto the retina for brief periods, challenging our understanding of the neural code for vision. We report that certain retinal ganglion cells encode the spatial structure of a briefly presented image in the relative timing of their first spikes. This code is found to be largely invariant to stimulus contrast and robust to noisy fluctuations in response latencies. Mechanistically, the observed response characteristics result from different kinetics in two retinal pathways ("ON" and "OFF") that converge onto ganglion cells. This mechanism allows the retina to rapidly and reliably transmit new spatial information with the very first spikes emitted by a neural population.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gollisch, Tim -- Meister, Markus -- R01 EY014737/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2008 Feb 22;319(5866):1108-11. doi: 10.1126/science.1149639.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18292344" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials ; Ambystoma ; Animals ; Kinetics ; Models, Neurological ; Photic Stimulation ; Reaction Time ; Retinal Bipolar Cells/physiology ; Retinal Ganglion Cells/*physiology ; Saccades ; Synapses/physiology ; Vision, Ocular/*physiology ; Visual Pathways/*physiology
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