ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2015
Photoreceptor projections and receptive fields in the dorsal rim area and main retina of the locust eye.
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- Neurons sensitive to non-celestial polarized light in the brain of the desert locust.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- The sky compass network in the brain of the desert locust.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Review
- Varieties of visual navigation in insects.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Sexual repurposing of juvenile aposematism in locusts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Matched-filter coding of sky polarization results in an internal sun compass in the brain of the desert locust.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Can invertebrates see the e-vector of polarization as a separate modality of light?The Journal of experimental biology · 2016Review
- Neurons in the brain of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria sensitive to polarized light at low stimulus elevations.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2016Article
- Anatomical Reconstruction and Functional Imaging Reveal an Ordered Array of Skylight Polarization Detectors in Drosophila.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016Article
- Ultrastructure of GABA- and Tachykinin-Immunoreactive Neurons in the Lower Division of the Central Body of the Desert Locust.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
- The evolutionary diversity of insect retinal mosaics: common design principles and emerging molecular logic.Trends in genetics : TIG · 2015Review
- Sky Compass Orientation in Desert Locusts-Evidence from Field and Laboratory Studies.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2015Review
- Transmedulla Neurons in the Sky Compass Network of the Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Are a Possible Site of Circadian Input.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
In many insect species, photoreceptors of a small dorsal rim area of the eye are specialized for sensitivity to the oscillation plane of polarized skylight and, thus, serve a role in sky compass orientation. To further understand peripheral mechanisms of polarized-light processing in the optic lobe, we have studied the projections of photoreceptors and their receptive fields in the main eye and dorsal rim area of the desert locust, a model system for polarization vision analysis. In both eye regions, one photoreceptor per ommatidium, R7, has a long visual fiber projecting through the lamina to the medulla. Axonal fibers from R7 receptors of the dorsal rim area have short side branches throughout the depth of the dorsal lamina and maintain retinotopic projections to the dorsal medulla following the first optic chiasma. Receptive fields of dorsal rim photoreceptors are considerably larger (average acceptance angle 33°) than those of the main eye (average acceptance angle 2.04°) and, taken together, cover almost the entire sky. The data challenge previous reports of two long visual fibers per ommatidium in the main eye of the locust and provide data for future analysis of peripheral networks underlying polarization opponency in the locust brain.
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