The current study provides the first indication of a possible role for the lateral habenula in mediating this behaviour.
Our objective was to explore how different dimensions of social capital and health-related behaviours are associated, and whether health behaviours mediate this association between social capital and self-rated health and psychological well-being.
While in this species a mother's ability to recognise her offspring is likely to be mutually beneficial to both mothers and pups, allowing mothers to direct resources to filial young, it is probable that parent-offspring conflict [20] plays a role in mediating the behaviour of mothers and young and affects the timing of onset.
If decapod crustaceans show nociceptive behaviour, a reasonable hypothesis is that this behaviour is mediated by specialized sensory neurons that are specifically tuned to tissue-damaging stimuli, i.e., nociceptors.
In one species of caching corvid, the Western scrub-jay (Aphelocoma californica), this behaviour is mediated by separate motivational drives to eat and to cache (Clayton and Dickinson, 1999).
Although this may not be useful as a predictor in terms of public health policy, it could have implications due to the known link between male gender and likelihood of developing conduct disorder [ 14]; it could be that parenting behaviours mediate this increased risk.
Although differences in open-field locomotion were found, the decrease in locomotion over consecutive test sessions contradicts that this behaviour is (exclusively) mediated by fearfulness in the rabbit.
Given that sra-6 is weakly expressed in ASI that mediates attraction behaviour, this may have a subtle effect on avoidance mediated by the ASI neurons, although is unlikely to affect the avoidance behaviour of the transgenic animals towards its ligands.
However, the factors determining the quantity of compounds and composition of the odour blend released from the human skin that mediate mosquito behaviour have received little attention.
This gene is involved in the detection of pheromones, which are chemical compounds released by one individual to trigger a social response in members of the same species and therefore are widely used among social insects to mediate mating behaviour.
