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Gene Co-Citation Networks Associated With Worker Sterility In Honey Bees., Emma Kate Mullen, Mark Daley, Alanna Gabrielle Backx, Graham James Thompson
Gene Co-Citation Networks Associated With Worker Sterility In Honey Bees., Emma Kate Mullen, Mark Daley, Alanna Gabrielle Backx, Graham James Thompson
Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications
BACKGROUND: The evolution of reproductive self-sacrifice is well understood from kin theory, yet our understanding of how actual genes influence the expression of reproductive altruism is only beginning to take shape. As a model in the molecular study of social behaviour, the honey bee Apis mellifera has yielded hundreds of genes associated in their expression with differences in reproductive status of females, including genes directly associated with sterility, yet there has not been an attempt to link these candidates into functional networks that explain how workers regulate sterility in the presence of queen pheromone. In this study we use available …
The Impact Of Multisensory Integration Deficits On Speech Perception In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders., Ryan A Stevenson, Magali Segers, Susanne Ferber, Morgan D Barense, Mark T Wallace
The Impact Of Multisensory Integration Deficits On Speech Perception In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders., Ryan A Stevenson, Magali Segers, Susanne Ferber, Morgan D Barense, Mark T Wallace
Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications
Speech perception is an inherently multisensory process. When having a face-to-face conversation, a listener not only hears what a speaker is saying, but also sees the articulatory gestures that accompany those sounds. Speech signals in visual and auditory modalities provide complementary information to the listener (Kavanagh and Mattingly, 1974), and when both are perceived in unison, behavioral gains in in speech perception are observed (Sumby and Pollack, 1954). Notably, this benefit is accentuated when speech is perceived in a noisy environment (Sumby and Pollack, 1954). To achieve a behavioral gain from multisensory processing of speech, however, the auditory and visual …