[The characteristics of the circadian motor activity of sturgeons and their hybrids studied by a motion picture-TV method]. / Izuchenie osobennostei sutochnoi dvigatel'noi aktivnosti osetrovykh ryb i ikh gibridov kinotelevizionnym metodom.

Technique of slow-motion shot was used for simultaneous automatic recording of behaviour of sturgeon species Acipenser nudiventris and its hybrid with white sturgeon, Huso huso. The hybrids and the individuals of the paternal species were placed in two separate aquaria under the conditions of constant light. Cinematographic recording was performed each hour throughout 3 days during 30 s per hour. Significant differences between two kinds of sturgeons were found in the locomotor activity, trajectory of swimming, the average value and circadian rhythm of the swimming speed. The hybrid individuals swim faster and display a high peak of night activity. This puts them close to the maternal species, white sturgeon, and gives evidence of the maternal inheritance of these traits.

[Comparative genetic analysis of the excitability of the nervous system and of certain types of motor activity in rats]. / Sravnitel'no-geneticheskii analiz vozbudimosti nervnoi sistemy i nekotorykh vidov dvigatel'noi aktivnosti u krys.

The significant correspondence between neural excitability and investigatory activity in novel environments was demonstrated when studying in four selected rat strains. In order to explain this kind of correlated response, one should assume that the interstrain differences between other peripheral and central parts of neural system also exist.