Ruth Styfhals

This paper describes a protocol for calcium imaging in Octopus vulgaris brain slices to study single-cell responses to neurotransmitters.

This study shows that the RNA labeling compound EU integrates into DNA in some animal species, raising concerns about its specificity for RNA labeling.

The paper identifies novel dopamine and acetylcholine ionotropic receptors in the octopus visual system, revealing distinct neurochemical mechanisms compared to mammals.

The paper presents a chromosome-level genome assembly for the common octopus, O. vulgaris, which spans 2.8 billion basepairs and supports a karyotype of 1n=30 chromosomes.

The paper profiles cell diversity in the paralarval octopus brain to create a cell type atlas and identifies molecular similarities between octopus and fly glial cells.

The paper optimizes a whole-mount multiplexed RNA in situ hybridization chain reaction (HCR v3.0) protocol combined with immunohistochemistry and imaging to visualize neurogenesis in octopus embryos.

The paper identifies neural progenitor cells in octopus embryos and shows that newborn neurons migrate long distances to form the brain.

This paper introduces a controlled incubation system and staging atlas for studying the embryonic development of Octopus vulgaris in a laboratory setting.