ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2010
Spatiotemporal receptive field properties of a looming-sensitive neuron in solitarious and gregarious phases of the desert locust.
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- A systematic review of locust phase polyphenism: from proximate mechanisms to ecology and management.PeerJ · 2026Pooled it
- The Integrative Imperatives of Locust Phase Polyphenism Research: A Bibliometric Analysis.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2026Review
- Responses of a locust visual interneuron correlate with simple and compound object motion within the vertical plane.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Anisotropic interaction and motion states of locusts in a hopper band.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Chemical Ecology and Olfaction in Short-Horned Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae).Journal of chemical ecology · 2022Review
- Understanding how animal groups achieve coordinated movement.The Journal of experimental biology · 2016Review
- Dendritic Pooling of Noisy Threshold Processes Can Explain Many Properties of a Collision-Sensitive Visual Neuron.PLoS computational biology · 2015Article
- Burst Firing in a Motion-Sensitive Neural Pathway Correlates with Expansion Properties of Looming Objects that Evoke Avoidance Behaviors.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2015Article
- Listening to the environment: hearing differences from an epigenetic effect in solitarious and gregarious locusts.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2014Article
- Responses of a pair of flying locusts to lateral looming visual stimuli.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2014Article
- Using field data to test locust migratory band collective movement models.Interface focus · 2012Article
- Passive resting state and history of antagonist muscle activity shape active extensions in an insect limb.Journal of neurophysiology · 2012Article
- Predator versus prey: locust looming-detector neuron and behavioural responses to stimuli representing attacking bird predators.PloS one · 2012Article
- Epigenetic remodelling of brain, body and behaviour during phase change in locusts.Neural systems & circuits · 2011Article
- Collision detection as a model for sensory-motor integration.Annual review of neuroscience · 2011Review
- Microarray-based transcriptomic analysis of differences between long-term gregarious and solitarious desert locusts.PloS one · 2011Article
- Gregarious desert locusts have substantially larger brains with altered proportions compared with the solitarious phase.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2010Article
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Desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can transform reversibly between the swarming gregarious phase and a solitarious phase, which avoids other locusts. This transformation entails dramatic changes in morphology, physiology, and behavior. We have used the lobula giant movement detector (LGMD) and its postsynaptic target, the descending contralateral movement detector (DCMD), which are visual interneurons that detect looming objects, to analyze how differences in the visual ecology of the two phases are served by altered neuronal function. Solitarious locusts had larger eyes and a greater degree of binocular overlap than those of gregarious locusts. The receptive field to looming stimuli had a large central region of nearly equal response spanning 120 degrees x 60 degrees in both phases. The DCMDs of gregarious locusts responded more strongly than solitarious locusts and had a small caudolateral focus of even further sensitivity. More peripherally, the response was reduced in both phases, particularly ventrally, with gregarious locusts showing greater proportional decrease. Gregarious locusts showed less habituation to repeated looming stimuli along the eye equator than did solitarious locusts. By contrast, in other parts of the receptive field the degree of habituation was similar in both phases. The receptive field organization to looming stimuli contrasts strongly with the receptive field organization of the same neurons to nonlooming local-motion stimuli, which show much more pronounced regional variation. The DCMDs of both gregarious and solitarious locusts are able to detect approaching objects from across a wide expanse of visual space, but phase-specific changes in the spatiotemporal receptive field are linked to lifestyle changes.
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