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  • MIS
    Methods in Insect Science

  • ABSSSB
    Animal Brains, Signals, Sex, and Social Behaviors

  • TKBANNA
    To Know a Brain: A Neuroevolutionary and Neuroethological Approach

Grants
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    Collaborative Research: Origin and Evolutionary Divergence of the Pancrustacean Brain

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2018

    $712.4K
    Active
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    Amplitude and Polarization High-Speed Image Display (APHID) For Characterizing Invertebrate Vision

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2017

    $45.0K
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    Post Doctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2015

    $4.6M
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    STTR: Biologically-inspired Integrated Vision System

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2014

    $400.0K
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    Sensory Encoding by Descending Neurons and its Relation to the Behavioral Output

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2013

    $800.3K
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    Biologically-inspired Integrated Vision System

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2013

    $75.0K
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    Post Doctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2010

    $6.5M
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    Insect Optic Glomeruli: Exploration of a Universal Circuit for Sensorimotor Processing

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2010

    $83.0K
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    The Insect Brain Connectome-Analysis of the Descending Neurons

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2010

    $80.0K
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    The Insect Brain Connectome: Exploration of a Universal Circuit for Sensorimotor Processing

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2009

    $519.7K
News
  • New Fossils Show What the Ancestral Brains of Arthropods Looked Like

    2021

  • The Brains of Shrimps and Insects are More Alike Than We Thought

    2020

  • Evidence Mounts that Brains Diverged from One Ancestral Arrangement

    2020

  • How Mantis Shrimp Make Sense of the World

    2019

  • New Clues From Brain Structures of Mantis Shrimp

    2017

  • Speaker Series to Feature 'Genius Grant' Winners

    2015

  • Ancient Brains Turn Paleontology on Its Head

    2015

  • Brain Evolution to be Explored During UA College of Science Lecture Series

    2014

  • February 2014: Month in Review

    2014

  • A Road Map – and Dictionary – for the Brain

    2014

  • Brain of World's First Known Predators Discovered

    2014

  • Of Bugs and Brains

    2014

  • Ancient Fossil Reveals Oldest Known Circulatory System

    2014

  • The Strikingly Similar Brains of Flies and Men

    2013

  • Extinct 'Mega Claw' Creature Had Spider-Like Brain

    2013

  • Cambrian Fossil Pushes Back Evolution of Complex Brains

    2012

  • Observing Nature to Help Make Sense of a Complex World

    2011

  • Instructors Honored for Outstanding Achievements in Teaching

    2011

  • Science Mentorship Program Earns Multi-Million Dollar Renewal

    2010

  • Velvet Worm Brains Reveal Secret Sisterhood With Spiders

    2006

  • UA Astronomer Dennis Zaritsky Named 2006 Guggenheim Fellow

    2006

  • Nicholas Strausfeld Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

    2002

  • UA Inducts Regents', University Distinguished Professors for 2001

    2001

  • UA Linguistics Prof Named MacArthur Fellow

    1999

Publications (175)
Recent
  • Biological Networks across Scales-The Theoretical and Empirical Foundations for Time-Varying Complex Networks that Connect Structure and Function across Levels of Biological Organization.

    2022

  • The lower Cambrian lobopodian em Cardiodictyon /em resolves the origin of euarthropod brains

    2022

  • Leanchoiliidae reveals the ancestral organization of the stem euarthropod brain.

    2021

  • Mushroom bodies and reniform bodies coexisting in crabs cannot both be homologs of the insect mushroom body.

    2021

  • Biological networks across scales.

    2021

  • Shore crabs reveal novel evolutionary attributes of the mushroom body.

    2021

  • The lobula plate is exclusive to insects.

    2021

  • Convergent evolution of optic lobe neuropil in Pancrustacea.

    2021

  • Mushroom bodies in Reptantia reflect a major transition in crustacean brain evolution.

    2020

  • The reniform body: An integrative lateral protocerebral neuropil complex of Eumalacostraca identified in Stomatopoda and Brachyura.

    2020

  • Ancestral regulatory mechanisms specify conserved midbrain circuitry in arthropods and vertebrates.

    2020

  • A Toll-receptor map underlies structural brain plasticity.

    2020

  • Nomen est omen, cognitive dissonance, and homology of memory centers in crustaceans and insects.

    2020

  • Mushroom body evolution demonstrates homology and divergence across Pancrustacea.

    2020

  • Mushroom bodies in crustaceans: Insect-like organization in the caridid shrimp Lebbeus groenlandicus.

    2019

  • Representation of the stomatopod s retinal midband in the optic lobes: Putative neural substrates for integrating chromatic, achromatic and polarization information.

    2018

  • Multiple spectral channels in branchiopods. I. Vision in dim light and neural correlates.

    2018

  • Insect-Like Organization of the Stomatopod Central Complex: Functional and Phylogenetic Implications

    2017

  • An insect-like mushroom body in a crustacean brain.

    2017

  • Neural organization of afferent pathways from the stomatopod compound eye.

    2017

  • Pathways underlying colour and polarisation processing in stomatopods

    2017

  • Arthropod eyes: The early Cambrian fossil record and divergent evolution of visual systems

    2016

  • Introduction to lsquo;Homology and convergence in nervous system evolution rsquo;

    2016

  • Introduction to 'Homology and convergence in nervous system evolution'

    2016

  • Fossils and the Evolution of the Arthropod Brain.

    2016

  • The larval nervous system of the penis worm Priapulus caudatus (Ecdysozoa)

    2016

  • Genealogical correspondence of a forebrain centre implies an executive brain in the protostome-deuterostome bilaterian ancestor

    2016

  • Waptia revisited: Intimations of behaviors

    2016

  • Evolutionarily conserved mechanisms for the selection and maintenance of behavioural activity

    2015

  • Introduction to 'Origin and evolution of the nervous system'

    2015

  • Introduction to lsquo;Origin and evolution of the nervous system rsquo;

    2015

  • Unlocking the early fossil record of the arthropod central nervous system

    2015

  • Central projections of antennular chemosensory and mechanosensory afferents in the brain of the terrestrial hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus; Coenobitidae, Anomura)

    2015

  • Palaeontology: Clearing the Heads of Cambrian Arthropods

    2015

  • Preservational Pathways of Corresponding Brains of a Cambrian Euarthropod

    2015

  • Genealogical Correspondence of Mushroom Bodies across Invertebrate Phyla

    2015

  • Brain structure resolves the segmental affinity of anomalocaridid appendages

    2014

  • Cong et al. reply

    2014

  • Nick Strausfeld

    2014

  • ldquo;What rdquo; and ldquo;where rdquo; in sensory space: parallels between olfactory and visual perception

    2014

  • An exceptionally preserved arthropod cardiovascular system from the early Cambrian

    2014

  • A systematic nomenclature for the insect brain

    2014

  • Responses of em Drosophila /em giant descending neurons to visual and mechanical stimuli

    2014

  • Homology versus convergence in resolving transphyletic correspondences of brain organization

    2013

  • A precocious adult visual center in the larva defines the unique optic lobe of the split-eyed whirligig beetle Dineutus sublineatus

    2013

  • Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod

    2013

  • Deep Homology of Arthropod Central Complex and Vertebrate Basal Ganglia

    2013

  • The minute brain of the copepod tigriopus californicus supports a complex ancestral ground pattern of the tetraconate cerebral nervous systems

    2012

  • Visual inputs to the mushroom body calyces of the whirligig beetle Dineutus sublineatus: Modality switching in an insect

    2012

  • Representation of the brain's superior protocerebrum of the flesh fly, Neobellieria bullata, in the central body

    2012

  • Arthropod brains: evolution, functional elegance, and historical significance

    2012

  • Letter from the Editors

    2012

  • Optic Glomeruli and Their Inputs in Drosophila Share an Organizational Ground Pattern with the Antennal Lobes

    2012

  • Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

    2012

  • Neuronal organization of the hemiellipsoid body of the land hermit crab, Coenobita clypeatus: Correspondence with the mushroom body ground pattern

    2012

  • Some observations on the sensory organization of the crustaceomorph Waptia fieldensis Walcott

    2011

  • A new view of insect-crustacean relationships I. Inferences from neural cladistics and comparative neuroanatomy

    2011

  • Brain homology: Dohrn of a new era?

    2011

  • A letter from the Editors

    2011

  • Transition from marine to terrestrial ecologies: Changes in olfactory and tritocerebral neuropils in land-living isopods

    2011

  • Dynamics of glutamatergic signaling in the mushroom body of young adult Drosophila

    2010

  • Preface. The seventh Special Issue of ASD: The Fossil Record and Phylogeny of the Arthropoda .

    2010

  • Brain and Optic Lobes

    2009

  • Brain organization and the origin of insects: An assessment

    2009

  • Earlier days

    2009

  • The effect of age on a visual learning task in the American cockroach

    2009

  • Ground plan of the insect mushroom body: Functional and evolutionary implications

    2009

  • Dimorphic olfactory lobes in the arthropoda

    2009

  • Neural organization of first optic neuropils in the littoral crab Hemigrapsus oregonensis and the semiterrestrial species Chasmagnathus granulatus

    2009

  • Johann Flögel (1834-1918) and the birth of comparative insect neuroanatomy and brain nomenclature

    2008

  • PubMed Announcement

    2008

  • Global and local modulatory supply to the mushroom bodies of the moth Spodoptera littoralis

    2008

  • Diverse speed response properties of motion sensitive neurons in the fly's optic lobe

    2007

  • Visual system of calliphorid flies: Motion- and orientation-sensitive visual interneurons supplying dorsal optic glomeruli

    2007

  • Organization of local interneurons in optic glomeruli of the dipterous visual system and comparisons with the antennal lobes

    2007

  • Visual system of calliphorid flies: Organization of optic glomeruli and their lobula complex efferents

    2007

  • Learning with half a brain

    2007

  • Dissection of the Peripheral Motion Channel in the Visual System of Drosophila melanogaster

    2007

  • Functional division of intrinsic neurons in the mushroom bodies of male Spodoptera littoralis revealed by antibodies against aspartate, taurine, FMRF-amide, Mas-allatotropin and DC0

    2006

  • Arthropod Structure Development: Editorial

    2006

  • The organization and evolutionary implications of neuropils and their neurons in the brain of the onychophoran Euperipatoides rowelli

    2006

  • Development-dependent and -independent ubiquitin expression in divisions of the cockroach mushroom body

    2006

  • Arthropod phylogeny: Onychophoran brain organization suggests an archaic relationship with a chelicerate stem lineage

    2006

  • Comparison of octopamine-like immunoreactivity in the brains of the fruit fly and blow fly

    2006

  • The evolution of crustacean and insect optic lobes and the origins of chiasmata

    2005

  • Octopamine-like immunoreactivity in the honey bee and cockroach: Comparable organization in the brain and subesophageal ganglion

    2005

  • Memory consolidation and gene expression in Periplaneta americana

    2005

  • Erratum: Memory consolidation and gene expression in Periplaneta americana (Learning and Memory (2005) 12 (30-38))

    2005

  • Sign-conserving amacrine neurons in the fly's external plexiform layer

    2005

  • Organization of Kenyon cells in subdivisions of the mushroom bodies of a lepidopteran insect

    2005

  • Organization of optic lobes that support motion detection in a semiterrestrial crab

    2005

  • Development and morphology of Class II Kenyon cells in the mushroom bodies of the honey bee, Apis mellifera

    2004

  • A simple mushroom body in an African scarabid beetle

    2004

  • The computational basis of an identified neuronal circuit for elementary motion detection in dipterous insects

    2004

  • Spatial learning in the restrained American cockroach Periplaneta americana

    2004

  • Chemical Neuroanatomy of the Fly's Movement Detection Pathway

    2004

  • Conserved and Convergent Organization in the Optic Lobes of Insects and Isopods, with Reference to Other Crustacean Taxa

    2003

  • A comment from the editors

    2003

  • Anatomical organization of retinotopic motion-sensitive pathways in the optic lobes of flies

    2003

  • A unique mushroom body substructure common to basal cockroaches and to termites

    2003

  • Retinotopic pathways providing motion-selective information to the lobula from peripheral elementary motion-detecting circuits

    2003

  • The mushroom bodies of Drosophila melanogaster: An immunocytological and golgi study of Kenyon cell organization in the calyces and lobes

    2003

  • Organization of the honey bee mushroom body: Representation of the calyx within the vertical and gamma lobes

    2002

  • Common design in a unique midline neuropil in the brains of arthropods

    2002

  • Development of laminar organization in the mushroom bodies of the cockroach: Kenyon cell proliferation, outgrowth, and maturation

    2001

  • Learned discrimination of pattern orientation in walking flies

    2001

  • Exploitation of an ancient escape circuit by an avian predator: Relationships between taxon-specific prey escape circuits and the sensitivity to visual cues from the predator

    2001

  • Taurine-, aspartate- and glutamate-like immunoreactivity identifies chemically distinct subdivisions of Kenyon cells in the cockroach mushroom body

    2001

  • Organization and significance of neurons that detect change of visual depth in the hawk moth Manduca sexta

    2000

  • Erratum: Parallel organization in honey bee mushroom bodies by peptidergic kenyon cells (Journal of Comparative Neurology 424 (179-195))

    2000

  • Exploitation of an ancient escape circuit by an avian predator: Prey sensitivity to model predator display in the field

    2000

  • Parallel organization in honey bee mushroom bodies by peptidergic Kenyon cells

    2000

  • Editorial

    2000

  • Optic flow representation in the optic lobes of Diptera: Modeling innervation matrices onto collators and their evolutionary implications

    2000

  • Optic flow representation in the optic lobes of Diptera: Modeling the role of T5 directional tuning properties

    2000

  • Multimodal efferent and recurrent neurons in the medial lobes of cockroach mushroom bodies

    1999

  • A brain region in insects that supervises walking

    1999

  • Representation of the calyces in the medial and vertical lobes of cockroach mushroom bodies

    1999

  • Organization of olfactory and multimodal afferent neurons supplying the calyx and pedunculus of the cockroach mushroom bodies

    1999

  • Evolution, discovery, and interpretations of arthropod mushroom bodies

    1998

  • Crustacean - Insect Relationships: The Use of Brain Characters to Derive Phylogeny amongst Segmented Invertebrates

    1998

  • Mushroom bodies of the cockroach: Their participation in place memory

    1998

  • Functionally and anatomically segregated visual pathways in the lobula complex of a calliphorid fly

    1998

  • The organization of extrinsic neurons and their implications in the functional roles of the mushroom bodies in Drosophila melanogaster meigen

    1998

  • Mushroom bodies of the cockroach: Activity and identities of neurons recorded in freely moving animals

    1998

  • Morphology and sensory modality of mushroom body extrinsic neurons in the brain of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana

    1997

  • The relevance of neural architecture to visual performance: Phylogenetic conservation and variation in dipteran visual systems

    1997

  • Visual motion-detection circuits in flies: Small-field retinotopic elements responding to motion are evolutionarily conserved across taxa

    1996

  • Visual motion-detection circuits in flies: Parallel direction- and non- direction-sensitive pathways between the medulla and lobula plate

    1996

  • Visual motion detection circuits in flies: Peripheral motion computation by identified small-field retinotopic neurons

    1995

  • Oculomotor control in calliphorid flies: Head movements during activation and inhibition of neck motor neurons corroborate neuroanatomical predictions

    1995

  • Oculomotor control in calliphorid flies: Organization of descending neurons to neck motor neurons responding to visual stimuli

    1995

  • Flybrain, an on-line atlas and database of the Drosophila nervous system

    1995

  • Oculomotor control in calliphorid flies: GABAergic organization in heterolateral inhibitory pathways

    1995

  • Subdivision of the drosophila mushroom bodies by enhancer-trap expression patterns

    1995

  • Two visual systems in one brain: Neuropils serving the secondary eyes of the spider Cupiennius salei

    1993

  • Two visual systems in one brain: Neuropils serving the principal eyes of the spider Cupiennius salei

    1993

  • Premotor descending neurons responding selectively to local visual stimuli in flies

    1992

  • Small-field neurons associated with oculomotor and optomotor control in muscoid flies: Functional organization

    1992

  • Small-field neurons associated with oculomotor control in muscoid flies: Cellular organization in the lobula plate

    1992

  • Structural organization of male-specific visual neurons in calliphorid optic lobes

    1991

  • Descending pathways connecting the male-specific visual system of flies to the neck and flight motor

    1991

  • Neuronal basis for parallel visual processing in the fly.

    1991

  • The functional organization of male-specific visual neurons in flies

    1991

  • Cluster organization and response characteristics of the giant fiber pathway of the blowfly Calliphora erythrocephala

    1990

  • Descending neurons supplying the neck and flight motor of Diptera: Organization and neuroanatomical relationships with visual pathways

    1990

  • Structure, distribution and number of surface sensilla and their receptor cells on the olfactory appendage of the male moth Manduca sexta

    1990

  • Descending neurons supplying the neck and flight motor of Diptera: Physiological and anatomical characteristics

    1990

  • The neck motor system of the fly Calliphora erythrocephala - I. Muscles and motor neurons

    1987

  • The neck motor system of the fly Calliphora erythrocephala - II. Sensory organization

    1987

  • Resolution of complex neuronal arrangements in the blowfly visual system using triple fluorescence staining

    1987

  • Visuo-motor pathways in arthropods - Giant motion-sensitive neurons connect compound eyes directly to neck muscles in blowflies (Calliphora erythrocephala)

    1986

  • The dipteran 'Giant fibre' pathway: neurons and signals

    1986

  • Intersegmental sensory tracts and contralateral motor neurons in the leg ganglia of the spider Cupiennius salei Keys

    1985

  • Optic lobe projections of marginal ommatidia in Calliphora erythrocephala specialized for detecting polarized light

    1985

  • Lobula plate and ocellar interneurons converge onto a cluster of descending neurons leading to neck and leg motor neuropil in Calliphora erythrocephala

    1985

  • Convergence of visual, haltere, and prosternai inputs at neck motor neurons of Calliphora erythrocephala

    1985

  • The organization of giant horizontal-motion-sensitive neurons and their synaptic relationships in the lateral deutocerebrum of Calliphora erythrocephala and Musca domestica

    1985

  • Organizational principles of outputs from Dipteran brains

    1984

  • Cobalt-coupled neurons of a giant fibre system in Diptera

    1983

  • Cytology of cobalt-filled neurons in flies: cobalt deposits at presynaptic and postsynaptic sites, mitochondria and the cytoskeleton

    1983

  • Cobalt-immunocytochemical identification of peptidergic neurons in Calliphora innervating central and peripheral targets

    1983

  • A pair of descending neurons with dendrites in the optic lobes projecting directly to thoracic ganglia of dipterous insects

    1982

  • Male and female visual neurones in dipterous insects

    1980

  • Sexually dimorphic interneuron arrangements in the fly visual system

    1980

  • Peripheral and central nervous system projections in normal and mutant (bithorax) Drosophila melanogaster.

    1980

  • Vision in insects: pathways possibly underlying neural adaptation and lateral inhibition

    1977

  • Resolution of intraneuronal and transynaptic migration of cobalt in the insect visual and central nervous systems

    1976

  • The L4 monopolar neurone: a substrate for lateral interaction in the visual system of the fly musca domestica (L)

    1973

  • Synaptic connections of intrinsic cells and basket arborizations in the external plexiform layer of the fly's eye

    1973

  • L3, the 3rd 2nd order neuron of the 1st visual ganglion in the neural superposition eye of Musca domestica

    1973

  • The columnar organization of the second synaptic region of the visual system of Musca domestica L. - I. Receptor terminals in the medulla

    1972

  • The organization of the insect visual system (Light microscopy) - II. The projection of fibres across the first optic chiasma

    1971

  • The organization of the insect visual system (Light microscopy) - I. Projections and arrangements of neurons in the lamina ganglionaris of Diptera

    1971

  • The compound eye of the fly (Musca domestica): connections between the cartridges of the lamina ganglionaris

    1970

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