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The steaks are high: Reducing meat consumption by changing physical and economic environments to increase vegetarian sales
(2021-01-19)Livestock farming is responsible for ~15% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) and is a leading cause of deforestation, biodiversity loss, water-use and pollution. To feed 10 billion people a healthy and ... -
Neurotransmitter patterning in the embryonic ventral nerve cord of Drosophila melanogaster
This work has focused on neurotransmitter specification in the developing fruit fly brain. Neuroblasts constitute the fundamental developmental units of the insect nervous system, each generating a unique lineage. Our ... -
Activity and Structure of Auditory Brain Neurons Underlying Phonotactic Behaviour in Female Crickets
A long-standing question in cricket neurobiology is what kind of neuronal mechanism the females use, to recognise the temporal pattern of the male calling song. A delay-line and coincidence detector circuit with five neurons ... -
Investigating the roles of candidate gap genes from the neuroblast timer series during axial patterning in the beetle Tribolium
The gap genes encode transcription factors that play a central role in the process of segment patterning in Drosophila. Specifically, they interact to form the well-characterised ‘gap gene network’, which directs the ...
