Columbidae

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Transitive inference" in multiple conditional discriminations. 
  • A note on behavioural contrast and frustation. 
  • A tuned-trace theory of interval-timing dynamics. 
  • Alternative pathways for the selection of antigen-specific peripheral T cells. 
  • Binding kinetics of superantigen with TCR and MHC class II. 
  • Bird-mite infestation in a university hospital. 
  • Comparative analysis of environmental and clinical populations of Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Cryptococcus neoformans mates on pigeon guano: implications for the realized ecological niche and globalization. 
  • Cryptococcus neoformans shows a remarkable genotypic diversity in Brazil. 
  • Cutting edge: trimolecular interaction of TCR with MHC class II and bacterial superantigen shows a similar affinity to MHC:peptide ligands. 
  • Deductive reasoning in pigeons. 
  • Distributions of choline acetyltransferase and acetylcholinesterase activities in the retinal layers of pigeon red and yellow fields. 
  • Dynamics of time discrimination. 
  • Effects of mate familiarity on the courtship and reproductive success of the ring dove (Streptopelia risoria) 
  • Immediacy versus anticipated delay in the time-left experiment: a test of the cognitive hypothesis. 
  • Optimization: a result or a mechanism? 
  • Outer membrane of avian myeloblastosis virus. 
  • Population genetic analyses reveal the African origin and strain variation of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii. 
  • Reinforcement as input: Cyclic variable-interval schedule 
  • Sensory superstition on multiple interval schedules. 
  • Some properties of spaced responding in pigeons 
  • Some social and hormonal determinants of nest-building behaviour in the ring dove (Streptopelia risoria) 
  • Species coexistence by wide constant size spacing. 
  • Temporal control on interval schedules: what determines the postreinforcement pause? 
  • The 'superstition' experiment: a reversible figure. 
  • The behavioral economics of choice and interval timing. 
  • The choose-short effect and trace models of timing. 
  • The conditions for temporal tracking under interval schedules of reinforcement. 
  • The dusp1 immediate early gene is regulated by natural stimuli predominantly in sensory input neurons. 
  • The effect of informative feedback on temporal tracking in the pigeon 
  • The effects of interval duration on temporal tracking and alternation learning. 
  • The human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus can complete its sexual cycle during a pathogenic association with plants. 
  • The role of CD4-Lck in T-cell receptor antagonism: evidence for negative signaling. 
  • Time and memory. 
  • Time and rate measures in choice transitions. 
  • Timescale invariance and Weber's law in choice. 
  • Timing in choice experiments. 
  • Waiting in pigeons: the effects of daily intercalation on temporal discrimination.