Maplike representation of celestial E-vector orientations in the brain of an insect

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5814, 2007, Pages 995-997

  Heinze, Stanley ^a   Homberg, Uwe ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EYE; LOCUST; NAVIGATION; PHOTORECEPTION; POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; HEAD POSITION; INSECT; LOCUST; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GRASSHOPPERS; LIGHT; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 33847153973     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135531     Document Type: Article

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27. We thank S. Gebhardt, S. Gotthardt, K. Pfeiffer, and H. Vitzthum for contributing physiological data; K. Pfeiffer for help with data evaluation; A. Kurytas for providing three-dimensional reconstructions of brain structures; and E. Buchner for providing the antibody to synapsin. This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grants HO 950/14-3 and HO 950/16-1).