Mosquito sex under lock and key

Posted by dbos Rockefeller, This Week: Neuroscience

Kavli Affiliate: Leslie B. Vosshall | Authors: Leah Houri-Zeevi, Madison M. Walker, Jacopo Razzauti, Anurag Sharma, H. Amalia Pasolli and Leslie B. Vosshall | Summary: Female mosquitoes typically mate once in a lifetime, making this singular mating decision critically important for the female. Yet, mosquito mating has been historically viewed as male-guided, with the female […]


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Continuous partitioning of neuronal variability

Posted by dbos Hopkins, This Week: Neuroscience

Kavli Affiliate: Adam S. Charles | Authors: Anuththara Rupasinghe, Adam S Charles and Jonathan W Pillow | Summary: Neural variability poses a major challenge to understanding the information content of neural codes. Recent work by Goris et al. (Nat. Neurosci 2014) has provided new insights into variability in the visual pathway by partitioning it into […]


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