Front-back asymmetries in endogenous auditory spatial attention.

Research on endogenous auditory spatial attention typically uses headphones or sounds in the frontal hemispace, which undersamples panoramic spatial hearing. Crossmodal attention studies also show that visual information impacts spatial hearing and attention. Given the overlap between vision and audition in frontal space, we tested the hypothesis that the distribution of endogenous auditory spatial attention would differ when attending to the front versus back hemispace.

Chromosome-level reference genome for the Jonah crab, Cancer borealis.

The Jonah crab, Cancer borealis, is integral to marine ecosystems and supports a rapidly growing commercial fishery in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. This species also has a long history as a model for neuroscience that has expanded our understanding of central pattern generators, neuromodulation, synaptic plasticity, and the connectivity of neural circuits. Here, we present a highly contiguous reference genome for the Jonah crab that will provide an essential resource to advance fisheries, conservation, and biomedical research.

Effect of Lighting Methods on the Production, Behavior and Meat Quality Parameters of Broiler Chickens.

Many farms have been replacing traditional lighting sources with light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs because of technological modernization. We aimed to investigate the effects of incandescent lighting (IL) and LED lighting on Cobb 500 broiler chickens for six weeks. Production parameters (body weight, feed consumption, feed conversion ratio), calculated slaughter values (yield%, relative breast%, thigh%) and breast meat quality parameters (pH at 45 min and 24 h postmortem, color, drip loss, kitchen equipment losses, shear force, meat composition) were recorded.