The cryptochromes: blue light photoreceptors in plants and animals

I Chaves, R Pokorny, M Byrdin, N Hoang… - Annual review of …, 2011‏ - annualreviews.org
Cryptochromes are flavoprotein photoreceptors first identified in Arabidopsis thaliana, where
they play key roles in growth and development. Subsequently identified in prokaryotes …

Long-distance navigation and magnetoreception in migratory animals

H Mouritsen - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
For centuries, humans have been fascinated by how migratory animals find their way over
thousands of kilometres. Here, I review the mechanisms used in animal orientation and …

Building an allocentric travelling direction signal via vector computation

C Lyu, LF Abbott, G Maimon - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Many behavioural tasks require the manipulation of mathematical vectors, but, outside of
computational models,,,,,–, it is not known how brains perform vector operations. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] A connectome of the Drosophila central complex reveals network motifs suitable for flexible navigation and context-dependent action selection

BK Hulse, H Haberkern, R Franconville… - Elife, 2021‏ - elifesciences.org
Flexible behaviors over long timescales are thought to engage recurrent neural networks in
deep brain regions, which are experimentally challenging to study. In insects, recurrent …

Neural dynamics for landmark orientation and angular path integration

JD Seelig, V Jayaraman - Nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
Many animals navigate using a combination of visual landmarks and path integration. In
mammalian brains, head direction cells integrate these two streams of information by …

An anatomically constrained model for path integration in the bee brain

T Stone, B Webb, A Adden, NB Weddig, A Honkanen… - Current Biology, 2017‏ - cell.com
Path integration is a widespread navigational strategy in which directional changes and
distance covered are continuously integrated on an outward journey, enabling a straight-line …

Dopamine promotes head direction plasticity during orienting movements

YE Fisher, M Marquis, I D'Alessandro, RI Wilson - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
In neural networks that store information in their connection weights, there is a tradeoff
between sensitivity and stability,. Connections must be plastic to incorporate new …

Converting an allocentric goal into an egocentric steering signal

P Mussells Pires, L Zhang, V Parache, LF Abbott… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Neuronal signals that are relevant for spatial navigation have been described in many
species,,,,,,,,–. However, a circuit-level understanding of how such signals interact to guide …

What insects can tell us about the origins of consciousness

AB Barron, C Klein - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016‏ - pnas.org
How, why, and when consciousness evolved remain hotly debated topics. Addressing these
issues requires considering the distribution of consciousness across the animal …

A neural circuit architecture for angular integration in Drosophila

J Green, A Adachi, KK Shah, JD Hirokawa, PS Magani… - Nature, 2017‏ - nature.com
Many animals keep track of their angular heading over time while navigating through their
environment. However, a neural-circuit architecture for computing heading has not been …