ReviewFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2018
Insect Responses to Linearly Polarized Reflections: Orphan Behaviors Without Neural Circuits.
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- Polarized vision in the eyes of the most effective predators: dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata).Die Naturwissenschaften · 2025Review
- Towards global insect biomonitoring with frugal methods.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Stable flies sense and behaviorally respond to the polarization of light.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- 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
- Polarization vision in terrestrial hermit crabs.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- Drinking on the wing: water collection in polarotactic horseflies.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- 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
- The effects of circularly polarized light on mating behavior and gene expression inFrontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Whole genome sequence of a long-legged flyFrontiers in genetics · 2023Article
- Thresholds of polarization vision in octopuses.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Spatial orientation of social caterpillars is influenced by polarized light.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Genomic adaptations to aquatic and aerial life in mayflies and the origin of insect wings.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Heading choices of flying Drosophila under changing angles of polarized light.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Horsefly object-directed polarotaxis is mediated by a stochastically distributed ommatidial subtype in the ventral retina.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Celestial navigation inThe Journal of experimental biology · 2019Review
- The giant butterfly-moth Paysandisia archon has spectrally rich apposition eyes with unique light-dependent photoreceptor dynamics.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
The e-vector orientation of linearly polarized light represents an important visual stimulus for many insects. Especially the detection of polarized skylight by many navigating insect species is known to improve their orientation skills. While great progress has been made towards describing both the anatomy and function of neural circuit elements mediating behaviors related to navigation, relatively little is known about how insects perceive non-celestial polarized light stimuli, like reflections off water, leaves, or shiny body surfaces. Work on different species suggests that these behaviors are not mediated by the "Dorsal Rim Area" (DRA), a specialized region in the dorsal periphery of the adult compound eye, where ommatidia contain highly polarization-sensitive photoreceptor cells whose receptive fields point towards the sky. So far, only few cases of polarization-sensitive photoreceptors have been described in the ventral periphery of the insect retina. Furthermore, both the structure and function of those neural circuits connecting to these photoreceptor inputs remain largely uncharacterized. Here we review the known data on non-celestial polarization vision from different insect species (dragonflies, butterflies, beetles, bugs and flies) and present three well-characterized examples for functionally specialized non-DRA detectors from different insects that seem perfectly suited for mediating such behaviors. Finally, using recent advances from circuit dissection in
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