Epinephrine boosts red blood cell stability to hypoosmotic stress in the marsh frog Pelophylax ridibundus #ComparativePhysiology
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Exogenous melatonin in the scent glands of muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus) induced a dichotomous response: gland weight and size decreased in some individuals but increased in others. #ComparativePhysiology #Melatonin
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Further integrating social context into comparative and environmental physiology Summary: Social environments affect all aspects of animal physiology. We highlight how overlooking social effects might lead to inaccurate physiology-based predictions of species’ responses to environ...

🚨New paper out now! Excited to see this commentary, led by @shaunkillen.bsky.social, showing that social context is key in comparative physiology and must be integrated! Read more here: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... #ComparativePhysiology #Behaviour #Ecophysiology @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @jexpbiol.bsky.social

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🔵 Despite this, seals showed no negative effects from low adipose oxygen tension
🟡 This points to unique physiological adaptations supporting metabolic health under high adiposity

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🦇How do vampire bats get the energy to find their next meal? One lab set out to find the answer. Read more in The New York Times: https://ow.ly/6nmr50X4AI3 #ISpyPhysiology #ComparativePhysiology #Halloween #FridayPhysiologyFact #HalloweenCountdown CC: Ken Welch 🧪
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Bats have a lot of secrets. These bat-loving scientists are investigating It's the 16th Bat-a-thon in Belize. Researchers think the flying mammals can teach us about warding off pathogens and managing diabetes. They trap bats in nets, draw blood ... but no bats are harmed.

🦇What kind of secrets do you think bats have? Researchers are finding out: https://ow.ly/ymVM50V5m6J via NPR #ISpyPhysiology #ComparativePhysiology #Halloween #HalloweenCountdown 🧪

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🦇Continuing our #Halloween bat theme, what do you know about nature's vampires, the vampire bat? APS member Natalya Zinkevich and Brandon Meis tell us about these creatures on the #ISpyPhysiology blog: https://ow.ly/7P8a50XjWz1🧪#HalloweenCountdown #ComparativePhysiology
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🦇Egyptian fruit bats can plan their next meal! Research shows they use mental time maps to remember past visits and predict future fruit availability. Read more from Sci.News: https://ow.ly/TJ3G50V5miO #ISpyPhysiology #ComparativePhysiology #HalloweenCountdown 🧪
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🦇Our #Halloween bat week continues. Bats learn to ID their prey by listening to mating calls. Read more from The Washington Post: https://ow.ly/PBWW50X4A2t #ISpyPhysiology #ComparativePhysiology #HalloweenCountdown 🧪

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#Halloween is almost here! 🦇 Today’s bat fact comes from the Smithsonian: https://ow.ly/iuiE50X4zTX #ISpyPhysiology #ComparativePhysiology #HalloweenCountdown 🧪

#ECG analysis on brown bears documents prolonged #ventricular repolarization independent of #heartrate in #hibernation vs. activity, implicating protective adaptations that prevent #hypothermia induced ventricular #arrhythmias.
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#Cardiovascular #ComparativePhysiology

🧵10/ For context: when we shaved mice, they lost more heat & had to work harder metabolically—mirroring the NMRs’ natural state. Insulation is critical for small mammals. #ComparativePhysiology

🧵3/ Mice, like most mammals, defend their body temperature, but naked mole-rats do not. At any temperature, mice did an excellent job of maintaining euthermia. NMR were not so hot at keeping themselves warm.
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Meet our Editors at the JEB stand during the coffee break at 10:30 tomorrow (14 May) at the CSZ conference. Find out from Pat Wright, Katie Gilmour & Trish Schulte what we do that makes @J_Exp_Biol the best place to publish your #comparativephysiology and #biomechanics research

It’s time to take science to the southern hemisphere!
Save the date for the 1st Austral Animal Physiology Conference. Brazil, 6-9 Dec 2026.
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If you’re coming to #SICB2025, make sure you visit the JEB exhibition stand (booths 23/24) to pick up JEB goodies and find out what we do for our authors that makes @J_Exp_Biol the best place to publish your #comparativephysiology and #biomechanics research.

If you study how animals interact with their environment, from homeostasis to cardiac physiology and flight to navigation, we welcome studies in the fields of #comparativephysiology comparative #biomechanics and #neuroetholoty

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Journal of Experimental Biology is the leading journal in #comparativephysiology, publishing research in the physiology of animals, comparative #biomechanics and #neuroethology

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Welcome to the NEW Journal of Experimental Biology Bluesky feed. We are very excited to be here & are looking forward to talking about the amazing research that we publish in #comparativephysiology, #neuroethology and #biomechanics
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⁉️ Have you ever heard of Ruth #Beutler? Learn more about the extraordinary research&career of this female zoologist and how she made Karl #vonFrisch cry 😢 in the recent #review by @GuntherZupanc in Journal of #ComparativePhysiology...

Volcano plot of gene regulation in hibernating black bears. In search for the “kidney preservation” gene. #ComparativePhysiology #KidneyWk

Extraordinary ability of dolphins & whales to preserve water. Urine Osm can be 10,000 mOsm/kg! #ComparativePhysiology #KidneyWk