Deep conservation of head direction circuits in bees, ants and flies
Marcel Ethan Sayre, Valentin Gillet, Nils Ceberg, Griffin S. Badalamente, Atticus Pinzon-Rodriguez, Nina Griggs, Laia Serratosa Capdevila, Ruairí J.V. Roberts, Ebba Sundberg Gunnarsson, Felicia Szadaj, Saroja Ellendula, Anna Honkanen, Ajay Narendra, Stanley Heinze
The paper identifies conserved head direction circuits in bees, ants, and flies, showing stability over 300 million years with evolvable synaptic differences.
bioRxiv · Aug 3, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience