In imprinting, very young, visually naive chicks, when exposed to a moving visual stimulus, will approach the object and learn its characteristics. Subsequently, the chick will prefer the imprinted ...

Right after birth, young animals go through a period in which they 'imprint' or fixate on sights and smells that they're exposed to. For example, ducklings will imprint on their mother duck, or ...

We inherit half of our genes from each parent. For their function of most genes, it doesn't matter which parent a gene comes from. But this is not true for all genes: about 150 genes are subject to ...

Learning from parents during early development may crucially influence future mate choice decisions of birds. Such sexual imprinting is thought to be important to many fields of evolutionary ecology, ...

Newborn ring doves were taken away from their parents when they were from 4 to 14 days old. They were then either raised by hand in complete visual isolation from other members of their species or ...

The tendency of the body's immune system to selectively use immunological memory, based on a past infection whenever a variant of a pathogen (for example – a virus or bacteria) is encountered, is ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Microbiology, researchers conducted a systematic review to understand the occurrence of immune imprinting in the antibody responses of the host to ...

Researchers have developed the first comprehensive atlas of allele-specific DNA methylation across 39 human cell types, revealing a complex landscape of epigenetic regulation. The study identified ...