Behavioural methods articles within Nature

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• Article | 17 October 2018

  Elucidating the control and development of skin patterning in cuttlefish

  Tracking analyses of tens of thousands of individual chromatophores in freely behaving cephalopods enable studies of behaviour and development at cellular resolution.

  • Sam Reiter
  • , Philipp Hülsdunk
  •  & Gilles Laurent

• News | 13 March 2011

  Rats wake up for behavioural research

  Tiny imaging device allows scans of animals while they are awake.

  • Tiffany O'Callaghan

• Letter | 27 January 2010

  The cells and peripheral representation of sodium taste in mice

  Mammals are repelled by large concentrations of salts but attracted to low concentrations of sodium. In mice, the latter behaviour can be blocked by the ion channel inhibitor amiloride. Here, mice have been produced lacking the drug's target sodium channel, ENaC, specifically in taste receptor neurons. It is confirmed that sodium sensing, like the four other taste modalities (sweet, sour, bitter and umami), is mediated by a dedicated 'labelled line'.

  • Jayaram Chandrashekar
  • , Christina Kuhn
  •  & Charles S. Zuker