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Deep homology of arthropod central complex and vertebrate basal gangliaNicholas J Strausfeld
Department of Neuroscience, School of Mind, Brain and Behavior, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Science 340:157-61. 2013..The observed multitude of similarities suggests deep homology of arthropod central complex and vertebrate basal ganglia circuitries underlying the selection and maintenance of behavioral actions...
Dynamics of glutamatergic signaling in the mushroom body of young adult DrosophilaIrina Sinakevitch
Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, CNRS UMR 7637, ESPCI ParisTech, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 5, France
Neural Dev 5:10. 2010..In a Drosophila model of fragile X syndrome, the main cause of inherited mental retardation, treatment with metabotropic Glu receptor (mGluR) antagonists can rescue memory deficits and MB structural defects...- Arthropod phylogeny: onychophoran brain organization suggests an archaic relationship with a chelicerate stem lineageNicholas J Strausfeld
Division of Neurobiology and The Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Proc Biol Sci 273:1857-66. 2006..Neuroanatomical evidence suggests that the organization of the onychophoran brain is similar to that of the brains of chelicerates... 
Visual system of calliphorid flies: organization of optic glomeruli and their lobula complex efferentsNicholas J Strausfeld
Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 500:166-88. 2007....- Organization of local interneurons in optic glomeruli of the dipterous visual system and comparisons with the antennal lobesNicholas J Strausfeld
Division of Neurobiology, Arizona Research Laboratories, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Dev Neurobiol 67:1267-88. 2007..The present results demonstrate that future studies must consider the roles of other senses in visual processing... - Johann Flögel (1834-1918) and the birth of comparative insect neuroanatomy and brain nomenclatureNicholas J Strausfeld
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, 611 Gould Simpson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Arthropod Struct Dev 37:434-41. 2008..Here we give a biographical sketch of his life and summarize his remarkable achievements... - Ground plan of the insect mushroom body: functional and evolutionary implicationsNicholas J Strausfeld
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 513:265-91. 2009..Archaeognathan brains are like those of higher malacostracans, which lack mushroom bodies but have elaborate olfactory centers laterally in the brain... - Brain organization and the origin of insects: an assessmentNicholas James Strausfeld
Division of Neurobiology and The Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Proc Biol Sci 276:1929-37. 2009..Neural organization in brain centres, comprising olfactory pathways, optic lobes and a central neuropil that is thought to play a cardinal role in multi-joint movement, support affinities between insects and malacostracan crustaceans... - Dimorphic olfactory lobes in the arthropodaNICHOLAS STRAUSFELD
ARL Division of Neurobiology and Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1170:487-96. 2009..Other than a single description, there is no evidence for similar structures occurring in the Crustacea, suggesting that the evolution of dimorphic olfactory systems may typify terrestrial arthropods... - A new view of insect-crustacean relationships II. Inferences from expressed sequence tags and comparisons with neural cladisticsDavid R Andrew
Department of Neuroscience, University of Arizona, 1040 E 4th St, Gould Simpson Bldg 611, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Arthropod Struct Dev 40:289-302. 2011..Whereas the phenomenon of evolved simplification may be widespread, it is largely invisible to molecular techniques unless these are performed in conjunction with morphology-based strategies... - A new view of insect-crustacean relationships I. Inferences from neural cladistics and comparative neuroanatomyNicholas J Strausfeld
Department of Neuroscience, University of Arizona, 1040 E 4th St, Gould Simpson Bldg 611, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Arthropod Struct Dev 40:276-88. 2011..The present study resolves branchiopod crustaceans as descendents of an ancestor with a complex brain, which means that they have evolved secondary simplification and the loss or reduction of numerous neural systems... - Organization of olfactory and multimodal afferent neurons supplying the calyx and pedunculus of the cockroach mushroom bodiesN J Strausfeld
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, The University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 409:603-25. 1999..The relevance of multimodal supply to the calyx in odorant discrimination is discussed as are comparisons between mushroom body organization in this phylogenetically basal neopteran and other taxa... - Olfactory systems: common design, uncommon origins?N J Strausfeld
Arizona Research Laboratories ARL Division of Neurobiology University of Arizona PO Box 210077, Tucson, Arizona, 85721 0077, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 9:634-9. 1999..Whereas there is a case to be made for homology among members of the two great protostome clades (the ecdysozoans and lophotrochozoans), the position of the craniates remains ambiguous... - Multimodal efferent and recurrent neurons in the medial lobes of cockroach mushroom bodiesY Li
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, The University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 409:647-63. 1999.... - Parallel organization in honey bee mushroom bodies by peptidergic Kenyon cellsN J Strausfeld
Division of Neurobiology, Arizona Research Laboratories, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 424:179-95. 2000..The functional and evolutionary significance of the results is discussed... - Exploitation of an ancient escape circuit by an avian predator: prey sensitivity to model predator display in the fieldP G Jabloński
ARL Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz, USA
Brain Behav Evol 56:94-106. 2000..We propose that the tuning properties of these neural pathways might have contributed to the evolution of foraging displays in flush-pursuing birds... - Representation of the calyces in the medial and vertical lobes of cockroach mushroom bodiesN J Strausfeld
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, The University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 409:626-46. 1999..There are profound similarities between the mushroom bodies of Periplaneta, an evolutionarily basal taxon, and those of Drosophila melanogaster and the honey bee... - Chemical neuroanatomy of the fly's movement detection pathwayIrina Sinakevitch
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 468:6-23. 2004.... - Visual system of calliphorid flies: motion- and orientation-sensitive visual interneurons supplying dorsal optic glomeruliJun Ya Okamura
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 500:189-208. 2007..The present results are discussed with respect to the behavioral significance of oriented motion discrimination by flies and other insects, and with respect to neuroanatomical data demonstrating the organization of deep visual neuropils... - A simple mushroom body in an African scarabid beetleMattias C Larsson
ARL Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 478:219-32. 2004..In either case, cellular organization in Pachnoda's mushroom body is simple compared with that of other taxa... - Octopamine-like immunoreactivity in the honey bee and cockroach: comparable organization in the brain and subesophageal ganglionIrina Sinakevitch
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 488:233-54. 2005..The present observations are discussed with respect to possible roles of octopamine in sensory integration and association... - A unique mushroom body substructure common to basal cockroaches and to termitesSarah M Farris
Division of Neurobiology, Arizona Research Laboratories, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 456:305-20. 2003..It thus appears that the evolution of the Dictyoptera has been accompanied by increasing complexity of the mushroom bodies, achieved in part through the further specialization and elaboration of a subset of Kenyon cells... - Retinotopic pathways providing motion-selective information to the lobula from peripheral elementary motion-detecting circuitsJohn K Douglass
Division of Neurobiology, Arizona Research Laboratories, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 457:326-44. 2003..The results are discussed in the context of other intracellular recordings from retinotopic neurons and with analogous findings from mammalian visual systems... - Learning with half a brainDavid D Lent
Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Dev Neurobiol 67:740-51. 2007.... - Diverse speed response properties of motion sensitive neurons in the fly's optic lobeJohn K Douglass
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, 611 Gould Simpson Bldg, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 193:233-47. 2007..Two additional recordings are suggestive of acceleration-selectivity, a potentially useful visual capability that is of uncertain functional significance for arthropods... - Anatomical organization of retinotopic motion-sensitive pathways in the optic lobes of fliesJohn K Douglass
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Microsc Res Tech 62:132-50. 2003..Microsc. Res. Tech. 62:132-150, 2003... - Development-dependent and -independent ubiquitin expression in divisions of the cockroach mushroom bodySheena M Brown
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 496:556-71. 2006..This pattern of ubiquitin expression suggests that the gamma lobe circuitry undergoes continuous modification independent of development... - Sign-conserving amacrine neurons in the fly's external plexiform layerJohn K Douglass
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, 85721, USA
Vis Neurosci 22:345-58. 2005..Thus, the localized spatial responses and receptor-like temporal response properties of amacrines are consistent with possible roles in lateral inhibition, motion processing, or orientation processing... - Memory consolidation and gene expression in Periplaneta americanaMarianna Pintér
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Learn Mem 12:30-8. 2005..These transcripts will be used as one of several tools in the identification of neuronal circuits, such as in the mushroom bodies, that are implicated in memory consolidation... - The computational basis of an identified neuronal circuit for elementary motion detection in dipterous insectsCharles M Higgins
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Vis Neurosci 21:567-86. 2004..In addition, this model suggests that the retinotopic motion information provided to wide-field motion-sensitive cells in the lobula is derived from a less refined stage of processing than motion inputs to the lobula plate... - Organization of the honey bee mushroom body: representation of the calyx within the vertical and gamma lobesNicholas J Strausfeld
Division of Neurobiology, Arizona Research Laboratories, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
J Comp Neurol 450:4-33. 2002..The present findings suggest the need for critical reinterpretation of studies that have been predicated on early descriptions of the mushroom body's lobes... - Comparison of octopamine-like immunoreactivity in the brains of the fruit fly and blow flyIrina Sinakevitch
Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA
J Comp Neurol 494:460-75. 2006..The results are also discussed with respect to recent studies on octopamine-immunoreactive organization in honey bees and cockroaches and the suggested roles of octopamine in sensory processing, learning, and memory... - The mushroom bodies of Drosophila melanogaster: an immunocytological and golgi study of Kenyon cell organization in the calyces and lobesNicholas J Strausfeld
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Microsc Res Tech 62:151-69. 2003..As in honey bees, GABAergic processes densely invade Drosophila's calyces, which also contain a sparse but uniform distribution of octopaminergic elements. Microsc. Res. Tech. 62:151-169, 2003... - Dissection of the peripheral motion channel in the visual system of Drosophila melanogasterJens Rister
Lehrstuhl für Genetik und Neurobiologie, Universitat Wurzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Wurzburg, Germany
Neuron 56:155-70. 2007..At low contrast, L1 and L2 depend upon each other for motion processing. Of the two minor pathways, amc/T1 specifically enhances the L1 pathway at intermediate contrast. L3 appears not to contribute to motion but to orientation behavior... - Spatial learning in the restrained American cockroach Periplaneta americanaHyung-Wook Kwon
Dept of Biological Sciences, 6270 Medical Research Building III, Vanderbilt University, 465 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
J Exp Biol 207:377-83. 2004..Possible mechanisms, such as retinotopic matching versus angular matching, are discussed... - Organization of optic lobes that support motion detection in a semiterrestrial crabJulieta Sztarker
, , , Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Comp Neurol 493:396-411. 2005..We discuss the significance of commonalties across taxa with respect to the organization of the lamina and medulla and contrasts these with possible taxon-specific arrangements of deeper neuropils that support systems of matched filters... - Organization of Kenyon cells in subdivisions of the mushroom bodies of a lepidopteran insectMarcus Sjöholm
Department of Crop Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden
J Comp Neurol 491:290-304. 2005.... - Global and local modulatory supply to the mushroom bodies of the moth Spodoptera littoralisIrina Sinakevitch
IBDML UMR 6216, Case 907 Parc Scientifique de Luminy, 13288 Marseille, Cedex 9, France
Arthropod Struct Dev 37:260-72. 2008..The results suggest that in addition to longitudinal divisions of the lobes, circuits in the calyces and lobes are likely to be independently modulated... - Development and morphology of class II Kenyon cells in the mushroom bodies of the honey bee, Apis melliferaSarah M Farris
Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
J Comp Neurol 474:325-39. 2004..The observed variations in morphology indicate that subpopulations of Class II Kenyon cells in the honey bee can likely be further defined by significant differences in their specific connections and functions within the mushroom bodies...
Research Grants
- Neurobiology of a Simple Oculomotor System: CircuitryNICHOLAS STRAUSFELD; Fiscal Year: 2006..It will also lead to the implementation of silicon-based circuits that enable motion detection and shape discrimination and potentially provide the basis for a visual prosthetic device. ..
- Neurobiology of a Simple Oculomotor System: CircuitryNICHOLAS STRAUSFELD; Fiscal Year: 2007..It will also lead to the implementation of silicon-based circuits that enable motion detection and shape discrimination and potentially provide the basis for a visual prosthetic device. ..
- Conf Proposal:Gordon Research Conf on Neuroethology 2005NICHOLAS STRAUSFELD; Fiscal Year: 2005..The conference is intended for the broad neuroethological community at all professional levels including advanced graduate and postdoctoral trainees. ..
- NEUROBIOLOGY OF SIMPLE OCULOMOTOR SYSTEMNICHOLAS STRAUSFELD; Fiscal Year: 2001....
- NEUROBIOLOGY OF SIMPLE OCULOMOTOR SYSTEMNICHOLAS STRAUSFELD; Fiscal Year: 1993..A complete description of motor control in this model will contribute a major step towards understanding circuitry for complex oculomotor behaviour and the role of uniquely identified neurons in visual pursuit and interception...