Plans to license mobile animal exhibits in Wales

2016 ◽  
Vol 179 (25) ◽  
pp. 642.2-642
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Animal

scholarly journals Potential Leaders Trade Off Goal-Oriented and Socially Oriented Behavior in Mobile Animal Groups

2015 ◽  
Vol 186 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos C. Ioannou ◽  
Manvir Singh ◽  
Iain D. Couzin
Keyword(s):  
Trade Off ◽  
Animal Groups ◽  
Mobile Animal

Front-end electronics for the RatCAP mobile animal PET scanner

2004 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 1318-1323 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-F. Pratte ◽  
G. De Geronimo ◽  
S. Junnarkar ◽  
P. O'Connor ◽  
Bo Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Pet ◽  
Front End ◽  
Mobile Animal

Front-end electronics for the RatCAP mobile animal PET scanner

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-F. Pratte ◽  
G. De Geronimo ◽  
S. Junnarkar ◽  
P. O'Connor ◽  
Bo Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Pet ◽  
Front End ◽  
Mobile Animal

scholarly journals Emergent Sensing of Complex Environments by Mobile Animal Groups

Science ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 339 (6119) ◽  
pp. 574-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Berdahl ◽  
Colin J. Torney ◽  
Christos C. Ioannou ◽  
Jolyon J. Faria ◽  
Iain D. Couzin
Keyword(s):  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Environmental Gradients ◽  
Group Living ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Animal Group ◽  
Collective Sensing ◽  
Mobile Animal ◽  
Biological Taxa

The capacity for groups to exhibit collective intelligence is an often-cited advantage of group living. Previous studies have shown that social organisms frequently benefit from pooling imperfect individual estimates. However, in principle, collective intelligence may also emerge from interactions between individuals, rather than from the enhancement of personal estimates. Here, we reveal that this emergent problem solving is the predominant mechanism by which a mobile animal group responds to complex environmental gradients. Robust collective sensing arises at the group level from individuals modulating their speed in response to local, scalar, measurements of light and through social interaction with others. This distributed sensing requires only rudimentary cognition and thus could be widespread across biological taxa, in addition to being appropriate and cost-effective for robotic agents.

scholarly journals Microfluidic Device for Microinjection of Caenorhabditis elegans

Micromachines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
Reza Ghaemi ◽  
Justin Tong ◽  
Bhagwati P. Gupta ◽  
P. Ravi Selvaganapathy
Keyword(s):  
High Throughput ◽  
Reliable Method ◽  
Germ Line ◽  
Alignment Procedure ◽  
C Elegans ◽  
Needle Penetration ◽  
Skilled Operator ◽  
Mobile Animal ◽  
Fast Mechanism ◽  
Germ Line Transformation

Microinjection is an established and reliable method to deliver transgenic constructs and other reagents to specific locations in C. elegans worms. Specifically, microinjection of a desired DNA construct into the distal gonad is the most widely used method to generate germ-line transformation of C. elegans. Although, current C. elegans microinjection method is effective to produce transgenic worms, it requires expensive multi degree of freedom (DOF) micromanipulator, careful injection alignment procedure and skilled operator, all of which make it slow and not suitable for scaling to high throughput. A few microfabricated microinjectors have been developed recently to address these issues. However, none of them are capable of immobilizing a freely mobile animal such as C. elegans worm using a passive immobilization mechanism. Here, a microfluidic microinjector was developed to passively immobilize a freely mobile animal such as C. elegans and simultaneously perform microinjection by using a simple and fast mechanism for needle actuation. The entire process of the microinjection takes ~30 s which includes 10 s for worm loading and aligning, 5 s needle penetration, 5 s reagent injection and 5 s worm unloading. The device is suitable for high-throughput and can be potentially used for creating transgenic C. elegans.

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