ReviewFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2015
Sky Compass Orientation in Desert Locusts-Evidence from Field and Laboratory Studies.
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- Desiccated desert locust embryos reserve yolk as a "lunch box" for posthatching survival.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Doppler weather radars as a game changer in desert locust swarm tracking.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Neuroarchitecture of the Central Complex in the Madeira Cockroach Rhyparobia maderae: Tangential Neurons.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2024Article
- Measurement Modeling and Performance Analysis of a Bionic Polarimetric Imaging Navigation Sensor Using Rayleigh Scattering to Generate Scattered Sunlight.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Behavioral responses of free-flying Drosophila melanogaster to shiny, reflecting surfaces.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
- Weighting of Celestial and Terrestrial Cues in the Monarch Butterfly Central Complex.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Article
- Synaptic targets of photoreceptors specialized to detect color and skylight polarization ineLife · 2021Article
- Parallel Visual Pathways with Topographic versus Nontopographic Organization Connect theiScience · 2020Article
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- Cellular and synaptic adaptations of neural circuits processing skylight polarization in the fly.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
- Model and Non-model Insects in Chronobiology.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Review
- On the Role of the Head Ganglia in Posture and Walking in Insects.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Review
- Heading choices of flying Drosophila under changing angles of polarized light.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- From skylight input to behavioural output: A computational model of the insect polarised light compass.PLoS computational biology · 2019Article
- Two Compasses in the Central Complex of the Locust Brain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Celestial navigation inThe Journal of experimental biology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Locusts are long-range migratory insects. At high population density, immature animals form marching hopper bands while adults take off and form huge swarms of millions of animals. At low population densities animals are solitarious, but likewise migrate, mostly during the night. Numerous studies aimed at predicting locust infestations showed that migrations both as hopper bands and as adults are largely downwind following seasonal shifts of the tropical convergence zone taking the animals to areas of rainfall. Only a few studies provided evidence for active orientation mechanisms, including the involvement of a sun compass. This scarcity of evidence stands in contrast to recent neurobiological data showing sophisticated neuronal adaptations suited for sky compass navigation. These include a special dorsal eye region with photoreceptors suited to analyze the polarization pattern of the sky and a system of topographically arranged sky compass neurons in the central complex of the brain. Laboratory experiments, moreover, demonstrated polarotaxis in tethered flying animals. The discrepancy of these findings call for more rigorous field studies on active orientation mechanisms in locusts. It remains to be shown how locusts use their internal sky compass during mass migrations and what role it plays to guide solitarious locusts in their natural habitat.
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