Stephen M Rogers

Summary

Affiliation: University of Cambridge
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Motor neurone responses during a postural reflex in solitarious and gregarious desert locusts
    Laura M Blackburn
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
    J Insect Physiol 56:902-10. 2010
  2. ncbi Compensatory plasticity at an identified synapse tunes a visuomotor pathway
    Stephen M Rogers
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom
    J Neurosci 27:4621-33. 2007
  3. ncbi Spatiotemporal receptive field properties of a looming-sensitive neuron in solitarious and gregarious phases of the desert locust
    Stephen M Rogers
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
    J Neurophysiol 103:779-92. 2010
  4. ncbi Mechanosensory-induced behavioural gregarization in the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria
    Stephen M Rogers
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
    J Exp Biol 206:3991-4002. 2003
  5. ncbi Substantial changes in central nervous system neurotransmitters and neuromodulators accompany phase change in the locust
    Stephen M Rogers
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
    J Exp Biol 207:3603-17. 2004
  6. ncbi Serotonin mediates behavioral gregarization underlying swarm formation in desert locusts
    Michael L Anstey
    Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK
    Science 323:627-30. 2009
  7. ncbi Plasticity in the visual system is correlated with a change in lifestyle of solitarious and gregarious locusts
    Thomas Matheson
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom
    J Neurophysiol 91:1-12. 2004
  8. ncbi Gregarious desert locusts have substantially larger brains with altered proportions compared with the solitarious phase
    Swidbert R Ott
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    Proc Biol Sci 277:3087-96. 2010
  9. ncbi Critical role for protein kinase A in the acquisition of gregarious behavior in the desert locust
    Swidbert R Ott
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:E381-7. 2012
  10. ncbi Epigenetic remodelling of brain, body and behaviour during phase change in locusts
    Malcolm Burrows
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
    Neural Syst Circuits 1:11. 2011

Detail Information

Publications13

  1. ncbi Motor neurone responses during a postural reflex in solitarious and gregarious desert locusts
    Laura M Blackburn
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
    J Insect Physiol 56:902-10. 2010
    ....
  2. ncbi Compensatory plasticity at an identified synapse tunes a visuomotor pathway
    Stephen M Rogers
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom
    J Neurosci 27:4621-33. 2007
    ....
  3. ncbi Spatiotemporal receptive field properties of a looming-sensitive neuron in solitarious and gregarious phases of the desert locust
    Stephen M Rogers
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
    J Neurophysiol 103:779-92. 2010
    ..The DCMDs of both gregarious and solitarious locusts are able to detect approaching objects from across a wide expanse of visual space, but phase-specific changes in the spatiotemporal receptive field are linked to lifestyle changes...
  4. ncbi Mechanosensory-induced behavioural gregarization in the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria
    Stephen M Rogers
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
    J Exp Biol 206:3991-4002. 2003
    ....
  5. ncbi Substantial changes in central nervous system neurotransmitters and neuromodulators accompany phase change in the locust
    Stephen M Rogers
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
    J Exp Biol 207:3603-17. 2004
    ..Our data show that changes in levels of neuroactive substances are widespread in the central nervous system and reflect the time course of behavioural and physiological phase change...
  6. ncbi Serotonin mediates behavioral gregarization underlying swarm formation in desert locusts
    Michael L Anstey
    Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK
    Science 323:627-30. 2009
    ..Our data demonstrate a neurochemical mechanism linking interactions between individuals to large-scale changes in population structure and the onset of mass migration...
  7. ncbi Plasticity in the visual system is correlated with a change in lifestyle of solitarious and gregarious locusts
    Thomas Matheson
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom
    J Neurophysiol 91:1-12. 2004
    ..These results will permit us to analyze neuronal plasticity in a model system with a well-defined and controllable behavioral context...
  8. ncbi Gregarious desert locusts have substantially larger brains with altered proportions compared with the solitarious phase
    Swidbert R Ott
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    Proc Biol Sci 277:3087-96. 2010
    ..The larger brains of gregarious locusts prioritize higher integration, which may support the behavioural demands of generalist foraging and living in dense and highly mobile swarms dominated by intense intraspecific competition...
  9. ncbi Critical role for protein kinase A in the acquisition of gregarious behavior in the desert locust
    Swidbert R Ott
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:E381-7. 2012
    ....
  10. ncbi Epigenetic remodelling of brain, body and behaviour during phase change in locusts
    Malcolm Burrows
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
    Neural Syst Circuits 1:11. 2011
    ..The analysis of phase change in locusts provides insights into a feedback circuit between the environment and epigenetic mechanisms and more generally into the neurobiology of social interaction...
  11. ncbi Visually targeted reaching in horse-head grasshoppers
    Jeremy E Niven
    Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
    Proc Biol Sci 279:3697-705. 2012
    ..Thus, proscopids are capable not only of the sensorimotor transformations necessary for visually targeted reaching with their forelimbs but also of flexibly using different visual cues to target reaches...
  12. ncbi Gustatory processing in thoracic local circuits of locusts
    Stephen M Rogers
    Centre for Neuroscience, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 7PX, United Kingdom
    J Neurosci 22:8324-33. 2002
    ....
  13. ncbi Behavioural correlates of phenotypic plasticity in mouthpart chemoreceptor numbers in locusts
    Rebecca Opstad
    Department of Zoology and University Museum of Natural History, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
    J Insect Physiol 50:725-36. 2004
    ..This suggests that sensilla numbers are behaviourally relevant; particularly where locusts are not greatly food deprived and faced with marginally acceptable foods...