ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2019
Two Compasses in the Central Complex of the Locust Brain.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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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
- Neural representation of goal direction in the monarch butterfly brain.Nature communications · 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 influence of stimulus history on directional coding in the monarch butterfly brain.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
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- Integration of optic flow into the sky compass network in the brain of the desert locust.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2023Article
- In search of behavioral and brain processes involved in honey bee dance communication.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Review
- Performance of polarization-sensitive neurons of the locust central complex at different degrees of polarization.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Article
- Receptive field structures for two celestial compass cues at the input stage of the central complex in the locust brain.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- Rotation of skylight polarization during learning walks is necessary to trigger neuronal plasticity inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Weighting of Celestial and Terrestrial Cues in the Monarch Butterfly Central Complex.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Article
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- 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
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- Model and Non-model Insects in Chronobiology.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Review
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Abstract
Many migratory insects rely on a celestial compass for spatial orientation. Several features of the daytime sky, all generated by the sun, can be exploited for navigation. Two of these are the position of the sun and the pattern of polarized skylight. Neurons of the central complex (CX), a group of neuropils in the central brain of insects, have been shown to encode sky compass cues. In desert locusts, the CX holds a topographic, compass-like representation of the plane of polarized light (
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