ReviewCurrent opinion in insect science2017
Unraveling the neural basis of insect navigation.
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- Odor tracking in flyingProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Odor tracking in flyingbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- From skylight cues to magnetic fields: the toolkit of insect long-distance navigation.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Review
- The diversity of lepidopteran spatial orientation strategies - neuronal mechanisms and emerging challenges in a changing world.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Review
- A vector-based strategy for olfactory navigation inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- I2Bot: an open-source tool for multi-modal and embodied simulation of insect navigation.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- A computational model for angular velocity integration in a locust heading circuit.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Evolutionarily conserved brainstem architecture enables gravity-guided vertical navigation.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Energy Reserve Allocation in the Trade-Off between Migration and Reproduction in Fall Armyworm.Insects · 2024Article
- Desert Ant (Insects · 2024Article
- A brainstem circuit for gravity-guided vertical navigation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Emergent spatial goals in an integrative model of the insect central complex.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Behavioral responses of free-flying Drosophila melanogaster to shiny, reflecting surfaces.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- Neural representation of goal direction in the monarch butterfly brain.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Parallel motion vision pathways in the brain of a tropical bee.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
- Scanning behaviour in ants: an interplay between random-rate processes and oscillators.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- Visual learning in tethered bees modifies flight orientation and is impaired by epinastine.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
One of the defining features of animals is their ability to navigate their environment. Using behavioral experiments this topic has been under intense investigation for nearly a century. In insects, this work has largely focused on the remarkable homing abilities of ants and bees. More recently, the neural basis of navigation shifted into the focus of attention. Starting with revealing the neurons that process the sensory signals used for navigation, in particular polarized skylight, migratory locusts became the key species for delineating navigation-relevant regions of the insect brain. Over the last years, this work was used as a basis for research in the fruit fly Drosophila and extraordinary progress has been made in illuminating the neural underpinnings of navigational processes. With increasingly detailed understanding of navigation circuits, we can begin to ask whether there is a fundamentally shared concept underlying all navigation behavior across insects. This review highlights recent advances and puts them into the context of the behavioral work on ants and bees, as well as the circuits involved in polarized-light processing. A region of the insect brain called the central complex emerges as the common substrate for guiding navigation and its highly organized neuroarchitecture provides a framework for future investigations potentially suited to explain all insect navigation behavior at the level of identified neurons.
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