Division of labor and brain evolution in insect societies: Neurobiology of extreme specialization in the turtle ant Cephalotes varians.

Strongly polyphenic social insects provide excellent models to examine the neurobiological basis of division of labor.Turtle ants, Cephalotes varians, have distinct minor worker, soldier, and reproductive (gyne/queen) morphologies associated with their behavioral profiles: small-bodied task-generalist minors lack the phragmotic shield-shaped heads

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Polygenic risk score-based phenome-wide association study identifies novel associations for Tourette syndrome

Abstract Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by vocal and motor tics lasting more than a year.It is highly polygenic in nature with both rare and common previously associated variants.Epidemiological studies have shown TS to be correlated with other phenotypes, but large-scale phenome wide analyses in bioba

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Anti-inflammatory activities of dichloromethane-methanolic leaf and stem bark extracts of Ximenia americana in mice models

Introduction: Ximenia americana is a highly branched shrub mainly found in tropics of Asia, MAG CIT TROPICAL Africa, New Zealand, Central and South America among others.In most parts of Africa, X.americana is used in folklore to treat various disorders such as oedema, pain, fever, helminthiasis, diarrhea and burns among others.There is no published

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