Editorial: Multimodal Mating Signals: Evolution, Genetics and Physiological Background

Editorial Signals

Silent cerebral lesions (SCLs) are the newest complication to be described.3–5 In this issue of Circulation Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology, Rillig et al6 report their findings from their study of 70 patients undergoing atrial fibrillation ablation. They compared manual ablation with robotic intervention and found no difference in SCL between the groups (18% robot-assisted pulmonary vein isolati...

Independent multimodal background subtraction

Background subtraction is a common method for detecting moving objects from static cameras able to achieve real-time performance. However, it is highly dependent on a good background model particularly to deal with dynamic scenes. In this paper a novel real-time algorithm for creating a robust and multimodal background model is presented. The proposed approach is based on an on-line clustering ...

Editorial: Brain Extracellular Space: Geometry, Matrix and Physiological Importance

Genetics and genomics of Drosophila mating behavior.

The first steps of animal speciation are thought to be the development of sexual isolating mechanisms. In contrast to recent progress in understanding the genetic basis of postzygotic isolating mechanisms, little is known about the genetic architecture of sexual isolation. Here, we have subjected Drosophila melanogaster to 29 generations of replicated divergent artificial selection for mating s...

Signal perception in frogs and bats and the evolution of mating signals.

Psychophysics measures the relationship between a stimulus's physical magnitude and its perceived magnitude. Because decisions are based on perception of stimuli, this relationship is critical to understanding decision-making. We tested whether psychophysical laws explain how female túngara frogs (Physalaemus pustulosus) and frog-eating bats (Trachops cirrhosus) compare male frog calls, and how...