Dhananjay ThakurIf you picked seahorses as a model organism for neuroscience, what kind of questions would you ask?
#modelOrganisms #neuroscience #marinebiology #thoughtexperiments
bk@DhananjayThakur how does parenting work?
manisha@DhananjayThakur the first thing that popped in my head was, "does this hippocampus have a hippocampus or two?" 😄
@manisha same! Great minds.. haha
If I'm reading the literature right (again, not read deep enough yet), they don't seem to have a hippocampus-like region, although other fish do..
Pity they aren't studied much. Seem like very interesting animals. Unique parenting roles, they eat all the time, and lightning fast responses to prey..
sleepfreeparent@DhananjayThakur seahorses grow up different colors depending on where they are and what they eat - does this also lead to differences in their color perception and friend/predator identification, or is that separate?
@sleepfreeparent This is such a great question! On a related note, did just a cursory search, but was surprised to discover that there are less than 50 species of seahorses that have been discovered so far. Hrmph. I expected more
jonny (good kind)@DhananjayThakur
I dont have any substantive research questions because I dont know anything about seahorses, but I want to know why he is so beautiful
I dont have any substantive research questions because I dont know anything about seahorses, but I want to know why he is so beautiful
@DhananjayThakur
I change my answer to studying pair bonding, polygamy, and promiscuity between species - why are some species seasonally monogamous while others arent?
I change my answer to studying pair bonding, polygamy, and promiscuity between species - why are some species seasonally monogamous while others arent?
Bat Master Fresh@DhananjayThakur what do they like
Cykonot@DhananjayThakur is the mpreg drive sexual or nurturing 🤔
Edit: Like, is he bussin? He's bussin, isn't he
TeixiHow are seahorses neurons shaped?
How seahorses axons compare to the squids enlarged ones?
HT Your question reminded me of this unique #neurohistory video:
» Over 80 years ago a ground-breaking experiment undertaken at the Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association by Alan #Hodgkin and Andrew #Huxley helped launch a golden era of #neurobiology «
https://youtu.be/g2hysrWbuZs
You might also enjoy this #neurolecture recalling #hodgkinhuxley #neurohistory seminal quintet of papers, remarking how became aware of their model limitations, written in the 1952 d/4th paper:
Forgotten lesson in nowadays #compneuro models research!
» wetlab interventionist experimentation must remain the principal activity in the search for neurobiological mechanisms, for the same reasons Hodgkin & Huxley realized nearly 70 years ago «