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Behavioral indicators of heterogeneous subjective experience in animals across the phylogenetic spectrum: Implications for comparative animal phenomenology by Irwin, Louis N.

“…This behavioral study was undertaken to provide empirical evidence in favor of or opposed to the notion that animals across a wide breadth of the animal…”
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Renewed Perspectives on the Deep Roots and Broad Distribution of Animal Consciousness by Irwin, Louis N.

“…The vast majority of neurobiologists have long abandoned the Cartesian view of non-human animals as unconscious automatons—acknowledging instead the high…”
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Life Unknown: Preliminary Scheme for a Magnetotrophic Organism by Schulze-Makuch, Dirk, Irwin, Louis N

“…No magnetotrophic organism on Earth is known to use magnetic fields as an energy source or the storage of information. However, a broad diversity of life forms…”
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The Astrobiology of Alien Worlds: Known and Unknown Forms of Life by Irwin, Louis N., Schulze-Makuch, Dirk

“…Most definitions of life assume that, at a minimum, life is a physical form of matter distinct from its environment at a lower state of entropy than its…”
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Editorial: Comparative animal consciousness by Irwin, Louis N., Chittka, Lars, Jablonka, Eva, Mallatt, Jon

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A two-tiered approach to assessing the habitability of exoplanets by Schulze-Makuch, Dirk, Méndez, Abel, Fairén, Alberto G, von Paris, Philip, Turse, Carol, Boyer, Grayson, Davila, Alfonso F, António, Marina Resendes de Sousa, Catling, David, Irwin, Louis N

“…In the next few years, the number of catalogued exoplanets will be counted in the thousands. This will vastly expand the number of potentially habitable worlds…”
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Novel odors affect gene expression for cytokines and proteinases in the rat amygdala and hippocampus by Irwin, Louis N, Byers, Donna M

“…Abstract Olfaction in rodents provides an excellent modality for the study of cellular mechanisms of information processing and storage, since a single…”
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How Minimal Can Consciousness Be? by Irwin, Louis N.

“…This commentary on the argument by Jablonka & Ginsburg ( 2022 ) that unlimited associative learning (UAL) provides an evolutionary marker for the transition to…”
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Proposed Missions to Collect Samples for Analyzing Evidence of Life in the Venusian Atmosphere by Schulze-Makuch, Dirk, Irwin, Louis N, Irwin, Troy

“…The recent and still controversial claim of phosphine detection in the venusian atmosphere has reignited consideration of whether microbial life might reside…”
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A sulfur-based survival strategy for putative phototrophic life in the venusian atmosphere by Schulze-Makuch, Dirk, Grinspoon, David H, Abbas, Ousama, Irwin, Louis N, Bullock, Mark A

“…Several observations indicate that the cloud deck of the venusian atmosphere may provide a plausible refuge for microbial life. Having originated in a hot…”
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The Biological Oxidant and Life Detection (BOLD) mission: A proposal for a mission to Mars by Schulze-Makuch, Dirk, Head, James N., Houtkooper, Joop M., Knoblauch, Michael, Furfaro, Roberto, Fink, Wolfgang, Fairén, Alberto G., Vali, Hojatollah, Kelly Sears, S., Daly, Mike, Deamer, David, Schmidt, Holger, Hawkins, Aaron R., Sun, Henry J., Lim, Darlene S.S., Dohm, James, Irwin, Louis N., Davila, Alfonso F., Mendez, Abel, Andersen, Dale

“…The next step in the exploration of Mars should include a strong and comprehensive life detection component. We propose a mission called BOLD: Biological…”
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Scenarios for the evolution of life on Mars by Schulze-Makuch, Dirk, Irwin, Louis N., Lipps, Jere H., LeMone, David, Dohm, James M., Fairén, Alberto G.

“…As the environmental histories of Earth and Mars have diverged drastically after the first few hundred million years, so would the history of any life on them…”
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Reassessing the possibility of life on venus: proposal for an astrobiology mission by Schulze-Makuch, Dirk, Irwin, Louis N

“…With their similar size, chemical composition, and distance from the Sun, Venus and Earth may have shared a similar early history. Though surface conditions on…”
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Pavilion lake microbialites: morphological, molecular and biochemical evidence for a cold-water transition to colonial aggregates by Schulze-Makuch, Dirk, Lim, Darlene, Laval, Bernard, Turse, Carol, António, Marina Resendes de Sousa, Chan, Olivia, Pointing, Stephen B, Brady, Allyson, Reid, Donnie, Irwin, Louis N

“…The presence of microbialite structures in a freshwater, dimictic mid-latitudelake and their establishment after the last ice age about 10,000 years ago is…”
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Drastic environmental change and its effects on a planetary biosphere by Schulze-Makuch, Dirk, Irwin, Louis N., Fairén, Alberto G.

“…•Planetary change has occurred frequently and poses a challenge to life.•Directional selection has driven life to increasing diversity and complexity.•Mars…”
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Gene expression in the hippocampus of behaviorally stimulated rats: analysis by DNA microarray by Irwin, Louis N

“…Gene expression in the hippocampus of rats exposed to a brief vigorous swimming task was analyzed by DNA microarray hybridization against 5184 known DNA…”
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The prospect of alien life in exotic forms on other worlds by Schulze-Makuch, Dirk, Irwin, Louis N

“…The nature of life on Earth provides a singular example of carbon-based, water-borne, photosynthesis-driven biology. Within our understanding of chemistry and…”
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Sex and diet affect the behavioral response of rats to chronic mild stressors by Liang, Shuwen, Byers, Donna M, Irwin, Louis N

“…Abstract To investigate the interaction between sex, stressors, and dietary choice in rats, a preferred diet under the influence of chronic mild stressors was…”
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Disialogangliosides and TNFα Alter Gene Expression for Cytokines and Chemokines in Primary Brain Cell Cultures by Byers, Donna M., Gorbet, John C., Irwin, Louis N.

“…Gangliosides have long been implicated in multiple pathologies affecting the central nervous system. Empirical studies have suggested the possibility that…”
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Chronic mild stressors and diet affect gene expression differently in male and female rats by Liang, Shuwen, Byers, Donna M, Irwin, Louis N

“…While depression is reportedly more prevalent in women than men, a neurobiological basis for this difference has not been documented. Chronic mild stress (CMS)…”
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