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Wormlions prefer both fine and deep sand but only deep sand leads to better performance

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Current Zoology 2019年第4期65卷 393-400页

作者： Michael A Bar-Ziv Darar Bega aziz subach Inon Scharf School of Zoology Faculty of Life Sciences Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv Israel

Wormlions are small fly larvae that dig pits in loose soil to trap their prey. Similar to other trapbuilding predators, like spiders and antlions, they depend on the habitat structure for successful trap construction and prey catch. We examined whether sites at which wormlions are present differ in sand depth and particle size from nearby sites, at which wormlions are absent. Next, in the laboratory we manipulated both sand depth and type (fine vs. coarse) to determine their joint effect on microhabitat pref ere nee, the size of the con structed pit, wormlion movement, and their latency to respond to prey. We expected better performance by wormlions in fine and deep sand, and the sand in wormlions' natural sites to be finer and deeper. However, in only partial agreement with our expectations, wormlion sites featured finer sand but not deeper sand. In the laboratory, wormlions preferred both fine and deep sand, and moved more in shallow and coarse sand, which we interpret as an attempt to relocate away from unfavorable conditions. However, only deep sand led to larger pits being constructed and to a faster response to prey. The preference for fine sand could, therefore, be related to other ben efits that sand provides. Fin ally, body mass was a domi nant factor, interacting with the preference for both deep and fine sand: deep over shallow sand was more favored by large wormlions and fine over coarse sand by smaller ones. Our results suggest that several factors should be incorporated when studying microhabitat selection.

关键词： antlions habitat selection habitat structure substrate trap-building predators Vermileo

The combined role of visual and olfactory cues in foraging by Cataglyphis ants in laboratory mazes

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Current Zoology 2023年第4期69卷 401-408页

作者： Tomer Gilad Ori Bahar Malak Hasan Adi Bar aziz subach Inon Scharf School of Zoology George S Wise Faculty of Life SciencesTel Aviv University69978 Tel AvivIsrael

Foragers use several senses to locate food,and many animals rely on vision and *** is beneficial not to rely on a single sense,which might fail under certain *** examined the contribution of vision and smell to foraging and maze exploration under laboratory conditions using Cataglyphis desert ants as a *** intensity,measured as the number of workers entering the maze and arriving at the target as well as target arrival time,were greater when food,blue light,or both were offered or presented in contrast to a *** trained to forage for a combined food and light cue elevated their foraging intensity with ***,foraging intensity was not higher when using both cues simultaneously than in either one of the two *** training,we split between the two cues and moved either the food or the blue light to the opposite maze *** manipulation impaired foraging success by either leading to fewer workers arriving at the target cell(when the light stayed and the food was moved)or to more workers arriving at the opposite target cell,empty of food(when the food stayed and the light was moved).This result indicates that ant workers use both senses when foraging for food and readily associate light with food.

关键词： binary-tree maze desert ants diet choice foraging sensual modality spatial learning

Evidence for the effect of brief exposure to food,but not learning interference,on maze solving in desert ants

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Integrative Zoology 2022年第5期17卷 704-714页

作者： Tomer GILAD Arik DORFMAN aziz subach Romain LIBBRECHT Susanne FOITZIK Inon SCHARF School of Zoology The George S.Wise Faculty of Life SciencesTel Aviv UniversityTel AvivIsrael Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution Johannes Gutenberg University MainzMainzGermany

Theories of forgetting highlight 2 active mechanisms through which animals forget prior knowledge by recipro-cal disruption of *** to“proactive interference,”information learned previously interferes with the acquisition of new information,whereas“retroactive interference”suggests that newly gathered information interferes with already existing *** goal was to examine the possible effect of both mechanisms in the desert ant Cataglyphis niger,which does not use pheromone recruitment,when learning spatial information while searching for food in a *** experiment indicated that neither proactive nor retroactive interference took place in this system although this awaits conﬁrmation with individual-level learning ***,the ants’persistence or readiness to search for food grew with successive runs in the *** persistence led to more ant workers arriving at the food when retested a day later,even if the maze was shifted between *** support thisﬁnding in a second experiment,where ant workers reached the food reward at the maze end in higher numbers after encountering food in the maze entry compared to a treatment,in which food was present only at the maze *** result suggests that spatial learning and search persistence are 2 parallel behavioral mechanisms,both assisting foraging *** suggest that their relative contribution should depend on habitat complexity.

关键词： binary-tree maze desert ants forgetting memory motivation

Context-dependent effects of cold stress on behavioral, physiological,and life-history traits of the red flour beetle

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Insect Science 2019年第1期26卷 142-153页

作者： Inon Scharf Keren-Or Wertheimer Joy Lira Xin Tomer Gilad Inna Goldenberg aziz subach School of Zoology Faculty of Life Sciences &Steinhardt Museum of Natural HistoryTel Aviv UniversityTel AvivIsrael

Animals are exposed in nature to a variety *** stress is generally harmful,mild stress can also be beneficial and contribute to reproduction and *** studied the effect of five cold shock events versus a single cold shock and a control group, representing three levels of stress (harsh,mild,and no stress),on behavioral,physiological, and life-history traits of the red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum,Herbst 1797).Beetles exposed to harsh cold stress were less active than a control group:they moved less and failed more frequently to detect a food *** probability to mate was also lower. Beetle pairs exposed to harsh cold stress frequently failed to reproduce at all,and if reproducing,females laid fewer eggs,which were,as larvae in mid-development,smaller than those in the control ***,harsh cold stress led to improved female starvation tolerance,probably due to enhanced lipid *** cold shock also improved tolerance to an additional cold shock compared to the ***,a single cold shock event negatively affected fewer measured response variables than the harsh cold stress, but also enhanced neither starvation tolerance nor tolerance to an additional cold shock. The consequences of a harsher cold stress are thus not solely detrimental but might even enhance survival under stressful *** benign conditions,nevertheless,harsh stress impedes beetle *** harsh stress probably shifted the balance point of the survival-reproduction trade-off,a shift that did not take place following exposure to mild stress.

关键词： chill-coma recovery time cross-tolerance latency to mate maternal effects thermal ecology Tribolium castaneum

Consistent differences in foraging behavior in 2 sympatric harvester ant species may facilitate coexistence

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Current Zoology 2018年第5期64卷 653-661页

作者： Maya SAAR aziz subach Illan REATO Tal LIBER Jonathan N. PRUlTT Inon SCHARF Department of Zoology Faculty of Life Sciences Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 69978 Israel and bDepartment of Ecology Evolution Marine Biology University of California Santa Barbara CA USA

The co-occurrence of 2 similar species depends on their ability to occupy different ecological niches. Here, we compared the consistency of different aspects of foraging behavior in 2 cooccurring harvester ant species （Messor ebeninus and Messor arenarius）, under field conditions. The 2 species are active concomitantly and display a similar diet, but M. arenarius features smaller colonies, larger workers on average, and a broader range of foraging strategies than M. ebeninus. We characterized the flora in the 2 species＇ natural habitat, and detected a nesting preference by M. arenarius for more open, vegetation-free microhabitats than those preferred by M. ebeninus. Next, we tested the food preference of foraging colonies by presenting 3 non-native seed types. Messor arenarius was more selective in its food choice. Colonies were then offered 1 type of seeds over 3 days in different spatial arrangements from the nest entrance （e.g., a seed plate close to the nest entrance, a seed plate blocked by an obstacle, or 3 plates placed at increasing distances from the nest entrance）. While both species were consistent in their foraging behavior, expressed as seed collection, under different treatments over time, M. ebeninus was more consistent than M. arenarius. These differences between the species may be expxained by their different colony size, worker size, and range of foraging strategies, among other factors. We suggest that the differences in foraging, such as in food preference and behavioral consistency while foraging, could contribute to the co-occurrence of these 2 species in a similar habitat.

关键词： behavioral consistency coexistence mechanisms foraging harvester ants plant-ant interactions.

The value of spatial experience and group size for ant colonies in direct competition

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Insect Science 2023年第1期30卷 241-250页

作者： aziz subach Bar Avidov Arik Dorfman Darar Bega Tomer Gilad Mark Kvetny May Hershkovitz Reshef Susanne Foitzik Inon Scharf School of Zoology George S.Wise Faculty of Life SciencesTel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv/srael Department of Geophysics Faculty of Exact SciencesTel Aviv UniversityTel AvivIsrael Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution Johannes Gutenberg University MainzMainzGermany

Animals often search for food more efficiently with ***,the contribution of experience toforaging success under direct competition has rarelybeen *** we used colonies of an individually foraging desert ant to investigate the value of spatial ***,we trained worker groups of equal numbers to solve either a complex or a simple *** then tested pairs of both groups against one another in reaching a food *** task required solving the same complex maze that one of the groups had been trained in,to determine which group would exploit better the food *** worker groups previously trained in the complex mazes reached the food reward faster and more of these workers fed on the food than those trained in simple mazes,but only in the intermediate size *** determine the relative importance of group size versus spatial experience in exploiting food patches,we then tested smaller trained worker groups against larger untrained *** larger groups outcompeted the smaller ones,despite the latter's advantage of spatial *** contribution of spatial experience,as found here,appears to be small,and depends on group size:an advantage of a few workers of the untrained group over the trained group negates its benefits.

关键词： Cataglyphis colony size dominance-discovery trade-off learning maze solving social insects

Aagab is required for zebrafish larval development by regulating neural activity

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Journal of Genetics and Genomics 2024年第6期51卷 630-641页

作者： Shihui Ding Tursunjan aziz Anming Meng Shunji Jia State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life SciencesSchool of Life SciencesTsinghua UniversityBeijing 100084China Guangzhou Laboratory GuangzhouGuangdong 510320China State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology Institute of Genetics and Developmental BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China

Clathrin-mediated endocytosis has been implicated in various physiological processes,including nutrient uptake,signal transduction,synaptic vesicle recycling,maintenance of cell polarity,and antigen *** prior knowledge of its importance as a key regulator in promoting clathrin-mediated endocytosis,the physiological function of α-and γ-adaptin binding protein(aagab)remains *** this study,we investigate the biological function of aagab during zebrafish *** establish a loss-of-function mutant of aagab in zebrafish,revealing impaired swimming and early larval *** the high expression level of aagab in the brain,we probe into its physiological role in the nervous *** mutants display subdued calcium responses and local field potential in the optic tectal neurons,aligning with reduced neurotransmitter release(e.g.,norepinephrine)in the tectal neuropil of aagab *** aagab mRNA or nervous stimulant treatment in mutants restores neurotransmitter release,calcium responses,swimming ability,and ***,our observations show delayed release of FM 1-43 in AAGAB knockdown differentiated neuroblastoma cells,pointing towards a probable link to defective clathrin-mediated synaptic vesicle *** conclusion,our study underscores the significance of Aagab in neurobiology and suggests its potential impacts on neurological disorders.

关键词： Aagab Endocytosis Neural activity Synaptic transmitter release Zebrafish

Model Predictive Current Control for Low-Cost Shunt Active Power Filter

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CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems 2024年第4期10卷 1589-1598页

作者： Ali A.Abdel-aziz Mohamed A.Elgenedy Barry W.Williams the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department Strathclyde UniversityGlasgowG11XQUK School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment(SCEBE)Glasgow Caledonian UniversityGlasgowG40BAUK

Performance of a three-phase shunt active power filter(SAPF)relies on the capability of the controller to track the reference ***,designing an accurate current controller is crucial to guarantee satisfactory SAPF *** paper presents a model predictive current controller(MPCC)for a low-cost,four-switch,shunt active power filter for power quality improvement.A four-switch,B4,converter topology is adopted as an SAPF,hence offering a simple,robust,and low-cost *** addition,to further reduce overall cost,only two interfacing filter inductors,instead of three,are used to eliminate switching current *** proposed SAPF model MPCC is detailed for implementation,where simulation and experimental results validate effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm showing a 20%improvement in total harmonic distortion compared with a conventional hysteresis band current controller.

关键词： Four-switch converter harmonic distortion model predictive current control power quality shunt active power filter

ROS-responsive hydrogels with spatiotemporally sequential delivery of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs for the repair of MRSA-infected wounds

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Regenerative Biomaterials 2024年第1期3卷 119-131页

作者： Bowen Qiao Jiaxin Wang Lipeng Qiao aziz Maleki Yongping Liang Baolin Guo Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research College of StomatologyXi’an Jiaotong UniversityXi’an 710049China State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials Frontier Institute of Science and TechnologyXi’an Jiaotong UniversityXi’an 710049China Zanjan Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology Research Center(ZPNRC) Zanjan 45139-56184Iran Department of Orthopaedics The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong UniversityXi’an 710061People’s Republic of China

For the treatment of MRSA-infected wounds,the spatiotemporally sequential delivery of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs is a promising *** this study,ROS-responsive HA-PBA/PVA(HPA)hydrogel was prepared by phenylborate ester bond cross-linking between hyaluronic acid-grafted 3-amino phenylboronic acid(HA-PBA)and polyvinyl alcohol(PVA)to achieve spatiotemporally controlled release of two kinds of drug to treat MRSA-infected *** hydrophilic antibiotic moxifloxacin(M)was directly loaded in the *** hydrophobic curcumin(Cur)with anti-inflammatory function was first mixed with Pluronic F127(PF)to form Cur-encapsulated PF micelles(Cur-PF),and then loaded into the HPA *** to the different hydrophilic and hydrophobic nature of moxifloxacin and Cur and their different existing forms in the HPA hydrogel,the final HPA/M&Cur-PF hydrogel can achieve different spatiotemporally sequential delivery of the two *** addition,the swelling,degradation,self-healing,antibacterial,anti-inflammatory,antioxidant property,and biocompatibility of hydrogels were ***,in the MRSA-infected mouse skin wound,the hydrogel-treated group showed faster wound closure,less inflammation and more collagen *** experiments further confirmed that the hydrogel promoted better repair by reducing inflammation(TNF-a)and promoting vascular(VEGF)*** conclusion,this HPA/M&CurPF hydrogel that can spatiotemporally sequential deliver antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs showed great potential for the repair of MRSA-infected skin wounds.

关键词： MRSA-infected wounds spatiotemporally sequential delivery antibacterial anti-inflammatory