Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

This study shows Drosophila can flexibly categorize stimuli based on available options, with memory specificity depending on stimulus order and identity.

The paper identifies sub-classes of antennal lobe neurons in mosquitoes and shows how odorants are encoded by population activity in projection neurons.

The paper shows that ants use a single glomerulus to encode alarm pheromones, indicating stereotyped and narrow tuning for these signals.

This study identifies a neural circuit in Drosophila larvae that controls locomotion speed by synchronizing muscle contractions across segments.

This study identifies JNK and p38 MAPK pathways in C. elegans that mediate salt chemotaxis learning, with distinct roles in avoiding low and high salt concentrations.

The paper identifies memory phase-specific genes in Drosophila mushroom bodies using a CREB-DamID approach and validates them through RNAi screens.

The paper investigates network plasticity in the honey bee antennal lobe during odor presentation, showing odor-specific changes in functional connectivity.

The paper shows miR-190 suppresses cholinergic co-transmission in glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons by posttranscriptional regulation, affecting sleep behavior.

The paper shows that Drosophila can return to a reward location using path integration despite potential pheromonal cues.

This study investigates honey bee decision-making by analyzing their speed and accuracy in accepting or rejecting flower stimuli, finding their decision mechanisms are sophisticated and comparable to primates.

The paper shows that stretch-dependent mechanosensory feedback from vulval muscles regulates egg-laying circuit activity and behavior in C. elegans by modulating Ca2+ transients in both muscles and neurons.

The paper shows that Drosophila uses separate neural pathways to process spatial and qualitative information from the pheromone cVA, enabling context-dependent mating behaviors.

The paper shows early-life starvation affects behavioral responses at different developmental stages in C. elegans, with dopamine and serotonin having opposite roles, and identifies individuality types shaped by experience.

This study shows that chronic exposure to natural odor concentrations in Drosophila does not reduce PN sensitivity but mildly increases responses to weak stimuli, indicating limited plasticity in early olfactory processing.

This study shows that walking in bumblebees increases visual processing speed by raising eye temperature, equivalent to a 14-fold increase in light intensity.

The paper identifies MBONa1/a2 neurons in Drosophila that respond only to high odor concentrations, suggesting they regulate odor discrimination learning by processing odor intensity.

This study identifies Belly roll as a regulator of Drosophila escape behaviors by modulating neuronal activity in ABLK neurons.

The paper investigates how serotonin release from a specific neuron in C. elegans affects whole-brain activity and behavior by identifying core and interacting serotonin receptors and mapping their expression and functional roles.

The paper identifies the neural and hormonal mechanisms underlying parasite-induced summiting behavior in Drosophila using a combination of behavioral assays, machine learning, and metabolomic analysis.

This study shows that mating in Drosophila females activates neuroendocrine pathways that increase sugar consumption to meet reproductive energy demands.

This study shows that the orco olfactory co-receptor is essential for maintaining female mosquito fertility after their first gonotrophic cycle.

retro-Tango is a retrograde circuit tracing method in Drosophila that uses a ligand-receptor interaction to enable transsynaptic reporter gene expression in presynaptic neurons.

The paper introduces coccinella, a reductionist framework for high-throughput behavioural analysis in Drosophila melanogaster using real-time tracking and resource-lean statistical learning.

The paper shows that distinct neural circuits in C. elegans mediate the same CO2 attraction behavior at different life stages, with insulin signaling modulating these circuits.

This study shows that C. elegans makes food choices as if maximizing subjective value, using a utility function similar to humans and requiring dopamine signaling.

The paper shows that steady-state and transient responses in the Drosophila Antennal Lobe are due to presynaptic and postsynaptic Local Neurons, modeled as differential Divisive Normalization Processors that extract semantic and syntactic odor information.

The paper identifies and quantifies sensory neurons in Anopheles mosquitoes using a neurogenetic approach and introduces a genetic tool for functional analysis.

The paper examines brain activity during walking in Drosophila, finding global but heterogeneous patterns of neuronal activity associated with both spontaneous and forced walking.

The paper investigates directional invariance in Drosophila's looming response circuit, showing that giant fibers integrate visual information from both eyes to generate consistent escape responses.

The paper investigates how motion signals are processed in the brain of tropical bees to support path integration during navigation.