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Courses
- MISMethods in Insect Science
- ABSSSBAnimal Brains, Signals, Sex, and Social Behaviors
- TKBANNATo Know a Brain: A Neuroevolutionary and Neuroethological Approach
Grants
- Collaborative Research: Origin and Evolutionary Divergence of the Pancrustacean Brain
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$712.4K
Active - Amplitude and Polarization High-Speed Image Display (APHID) For Characterizing Invertebrate Vision
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$45.0K
- Post Doctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$4.6M
- STTR: Biologically-inspired Integrated Vision System
Co-Investigator (COI)
2014
$400.0K
- Sensory Encoding by Descending Neurons and its Relation to the Behavioral Output
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$800.3K
- Biologically-inspired Integrated Vision System
Co-Investigator (COI)
2013
$75.0K
- Post Doctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching
Principal Investigator (PI)
2010
$6.5M
- Insect Optic Glomeruli: Exploration of a Universal Circuit for Sensorimotor Processing
Principal Investigator (PI)
2010
$83.0K
- The Insect Brain Connectome-Analysis of the Descending Neurons
Principal Investigator (PI)
2010
$80.0K
- 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)
- 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