Scientific Publications of Neurobiology & Ethology (recent - 2000)

Research Articles

2011

el Jundi B, Pfeiffer K, Homberg U 2011
A distinct layer of the medulla integrates sky compass signals in the brain of an insect
PLoS One 6(11); e27855
PMID: 22114712

Schulze J, Neupert S, Schmidt L, Predel R, Lamkemeyer T, Homberg U, Stengl M 2011
Myoinhibitory peptides in the brain of the cockroach Leucopahaea maderae and colocalization with pigment-dispersing factor in circadian peacemaker cells
J Comp Neurol doi: 10.1002/cne
PMID: 22095637

Kollmann M, Huetteroth W, Schachtner J 2011
Brain organization in Collembola (springtails)
Arthropod Struct Dev, in press doi:10.1016/j.asd.2011.02.003
PMID: 21420507

Träger, Homberg U 2011
Polarization-sensitive descending neurons in the locust: connecting the brain to thoracic ganglia
J Neurosci 31(6):2238-47
PMID: 21307260

Reiher W, Shirras C, Kahnt J, Baumeister S, Isaac RE, Wegener C 2011
Peptidomics and peptide hormone processing in the Drosophila midgut
J Proteome Res 10: 1881-1892
PMID: 21214272

Kollmann M, Minoli S, Bonhomme J, Homberg U, Schachtner J, Tagu D, Anton S 2011
Revisiting the anatomy of the central nervous system of a hemimetabolous model insect species: the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum
Cell Tissue Res 343(2):343-55
PMID: 21170552

Wegener C, Herbert H, Kahnt J, Bender M, Rhea JM
Deficiency of prohormone convertase dPC2 (AMONTILLADO) results in impaired production of bioactive neuropeptide hormones in Drosophila
J Neurochem [epub ahead of print]
PMID: 21138435

Pfeiffer K, Negrello M, Homberg U 2011
Conditional perception under stimulus ambiguity: Polarization- and azimuth-sensitive neurons in the locust brain are inhibited by low degrees of polarization
J Neurophysiol 105(1):28-35
PMID: 20962968

2010

Wei H, el Jundi B, Homberg U, Stengl M 2010
Implementation of pigment-dispersing factor-immunreactive neurons in a standardized atlas of the brain of the cockroach Leucophaea maderae
J Comp Neurol 518:4113–4133
PMID: 20878779

Bruns S, Müllner T, Kollmann M, Schachtner J, Hötzel A, Tallarek U 2010
Confocal laser scanning microscopy method for quantitative characterization of silica monolith morphology
Anal Chem 82(15):6569-75
PMID: 20593848

Carlsson MA, Diesner M, Schachtner J, Nässel D 2010
Multiple neuropeptides in the Drosophila antennal lobe suggest complex modulatory circuits
J Comp Neurol 518(16):3359-3380
PMID: 20575072

Rhea JM, Wegener C, Bender M 2010
The proprotein convertase encoded by amontillado (amon) is required in Drosophila corpora cardiaca endocrine cells producing the glucose regulatory hormone AKH
PLoS Genetics 6:e1000967
PMID: 18717992 Open access article

el Jundi B, Homberg U 2010
Evidence for the possible existence of a second polarization vision pathway in the locust brain
J Insect Physiol 56(8):971-979
PMID: 20488187

Sidyelyeva G, Wegener C, Schoenfeld BP, Bell AJ, Baker NE, McBride SM, Fricker LD 2010
Individual carboxypeptidase D domains have both redundant and unique functions in Drosophila development and behavior
Cell Mol Life Sci 67: 2991-3004
PMID: 20386952

Huetteroth W, el Jundi B, el Jundi S, Schachtner J 2010
3D-reconstructions and virtual 4D-visualization to study metamorphic brain development in the sphinx moth Manduca sexta
Front Syst Neurosci 4:7
PMID: 20339481

Schmeling F, Stange G, Homberg U 2010
Synchronization of wing beat cycle of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, by periodic light flashes
J Comp Physiol [A] 196:199-211
PMID: 20131057

Dreyer D, Vitt H, Dippel S, Goetz B, el Jundi B, Kollmann M, Huetteroth W, Schachtner J 2010
3D standard brain of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum: a tool to study metamorphic development and adult plasticity
Front Syst Neurosci 4:3
PMID: 20339482

el Jundi B, Heinze S, Kurylas A, Lenschow C, Rohlfing T, Homberg U 2010
The locust standard brain: A 3D standard of the central complex as a platform for neural network analysis
Front Syst Neurosci 3:21
PMID: 20161763

Hansen KK, Stafflinger E, Schneider M, Hauser F, Cazzamali G, Williamson M, Kollmann M, Schachtner J, Grimmelikhuijzen CJ 2010
Discovery of a novel insect neuropeptide/CPCR signaling system closely related to the insect adipokinetic hormone and corazonin hormonal system
J Biol Chem 285(14):10736-47
PMID: 20068045

2009

Heinze S, Gotthardt S, Homberg U 2009
Transformation of polarized light information in the central complex of the locust
J Neurosci 29(38):11783-93
PMID: 19776265

Neupert S, Huetteroth W, Schachtner J, Predel R 2009
Conservation of the function counts: Homologous neurons express sequence-related neuropeptides that originate from different genes
J Neurochem, epub ahead of print
PMID: 19712058

el Jundi B, Huetteroth W, Kurylas AE, Schachtner J 2009
Anisometric brain dimorphism revisited: implementation of a volumetric 3D standard brain in Manduca sexta
J Comp Neurol 517(2):210-225
PMID: 19731336
Siegl T, Schachtner J, Holstein G, Homberg U 2009
No/cGMP signalling: L-Citrulline- and cGMP immunostaining in the central complex of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria
Cell Tissue Res 337(2):327-40
PMID: 19506907

Staudacher EM, Huetteroth W, Schachtner J, Daly KC 2009
A 4-dimensional representation of antennal lobe output based on an ensemble of characterized projection neurons
J Neurosci Methods 180(2):208-223
PMID: 19464513
Heinze S, Homberg U 2009
Linking the input to the output: new sets of neurons complement the polarization vision network in the locust central complex
J Neurosci 29(15):4911-4921
PMID: 19369560
Berg BG, Schachtner J, Homberg U 2009
gamma-Aminobutyric acid immunostaining in the antennal lobe of the moth Heliothis virescens and its colocalization with neuropeptides
Cell Tissue Res 335(3):593-605
PMID: 19156440

2008

Fuchs TM, Bresolin G, Marcinowski L, Schachtner J, Scherer S 2008
Insecticidal genes of Yersinia spp.: taxonomical distribution, contribution to toxicity towards Manduca sexta and Galleria mellonella, and evolution
BMC Microbiol 8:214 online first
PMID: 19063735
Heinze S, Homberg U 2008
Neuroarchitecture of the Central Complex of the Desert Locust: Intrinsic and Columnar Neurons
J Comp Neurol 511:454-478
PMID: 18837039 Abstract full Article
Nässel DR, Enell LE, Santos JG, Wegener C, Johard HA 2008
A large population of diverse neurons in the Drosophila central nervous system expresses short neuropeptide F, suggesting multiple distributed peptide functions
BMC Neurosci 19;9(1):90 online first
PMID: 18803813
Wegener C, Gorbashov A 2008
Molecular evolution of neuropeptides in the genus Drosophila
Genome Biol online first
PMID: 18717992
Kurylas AE, Rohlfing T, Krofczik S, Jenett A, Homberg U 2008
Standardized atlas of the brain of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria
Cell Tissue Res 333(1):125-145
PMID: 18504618
Tribolium genome sequencing consortium, Richards S et al. 2008
The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum
Nature 452(7190):949-955
PMID: 18362917
Vömel M, Wegener C 2008
Neuroarchitecture of aminergic systems in the larval ventral ganglion of Drosophila melanogaster
PLoS ONE 3(3):e1848
PMID: 18365004
Li B, Predel R, Neupert S, Hauser F, Tanaka Y, Cazzamali G, Williamson M, Arakane Y, Verleyen P, Schoofs L, Schachtner J, Grimmelikhuijzen CJ, Park Y 2008
Genomics, Transcriptomics, Peptidomics, and Evolution of Neuropeptides and Protein hormones in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
Genome Res 18(1):113-122
PMID: 18025266
Träger U, Wagner R, Bausenwein B, Homberg U 2008
A Novel Type of Microglomerular Synaptic Complex in the Polarization Vision Pathway of the Locust Brain
J Comp Neurol 506(2):288-300
PMID: 18022957
Utz S, Huetteroth W, Vömel M, Schachtner J 2008
Mas-allatotropin in the developing antennal lobe of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta: Distribution, time course, developmental regulation and colocalization with other neuropeptides
Dev Neurobiol 68(1):123-142
PMID: 17948246

2007

Bader R, Wegener C, Pankratz M 2007
Comparative neuroanatomy and genomics of hugin and pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide (PBAN)
FLY 1(4):228-231
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PMID: 18820431

Santos JG, Vömel M, Struck R, Homberg U, Nässel DR, Wegener C 2007
Neuroarchitecture of peptidergic systems in the larval ventral ganglion of Drosophila melanogaster
PLoS ONE 2(8):e695
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PMID: n.d.

Pfeiffer K, Homberg U 2007
Coding of Azimuthal Directions via Time-Compensated Combination of Celestial Compass Cues
Curr Biol 17(11):960-5
PMID: 17524646

Kinoshita M, Pfeiffer K, Homberg U 2007
Spectral properties of identified polarized-light sensitive interneurons in the brain of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria
J Exp Biol 210:1350-61
PMID: 17401118

Vömel M, Wegener C 2007
Neurotransmitter-induced changes in the intracellular calcium concentration suggest a differential central modulation of CCAP neuron subsets in Drosophila
Dev Neurobiol 67(6):792-808
PMID: 17443825

Heinze S, Homberg U 2007
Map-like Representation of Celestial E-vector Orientations in the Brain of an Insect
Science 315(5814):995-997
PMID: 17303756 Abstract full Article

Utz S, Huetteroth W, Wegener C, Kahnt J, Predel R, Schachtner J 2007
Direct peptide profiling of lateral cell groups of the antennal lobes of Manduca sexta reveals specific composition and changes in neuropeptide expression during development
Dev Neurobiol 67(6):764-777
PMID: 17443823

Fastner S, Predel R, Kahnt J, Schachtner J, Wegener C 2007
A simple purification protocol for the detection of peptide hormones in the hemolymph of individual insects by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 21(1):23-28
PMID: 17125155

Berg BG, Schachtner J, Utz S, Homberg U 2007
Distribution of neuropeptides in the primary olfactory centre of the heliothine moth Heliothis virescens
Cell Tissue Res 327(2):385-98
PMID: 17013588

2006

Mappes M, Homberg U 2006
Surgical lesion of the anterior optic tract abolishes polarotaxis in tethered flying locusts, Schistocerca gregaria
J Comp Physiol [A] 193(1):43-50
PMID: 16988831

Hofer S, Homberg U 2006
Evidence for a role of orcokinin-related peptides in the circadian clock controlling locomotor activity of the cockroach Leucophaea maderae
J Exp Biol 209(Pt 14):2794-803
PMID: 16809470

Crawford MJ, Thomsen-Zieger N, Ray M, Schachtner J, Roos DS, Seeber F 2006
Toxoplasma gondii scavenges host-derived lipoic acid despite its de novo synthesis in the apicoplast
EMBO Journal Jul 12;25(13):3214-22
PMID: 16778769

Watanabe T, Schachtner J, Krizan M, Boretius S, Frahm J, Michaelis T 2006
Manganese-enhanced 3D MRI of established and disrupted synaptic activity in the developing insect brain in vivo.
J Neurosci Methods 158:50-55
PMID: 16766041

Santos JG, Pollák E, Rexer KH, Molnár L, Wegener C 2006
Morphology and metamorphosis of the peptidergic Va neurons and the median nerve system of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster
Cell Tissue Res 326(1):187-99
PMID: 16685531

Hofer S, Homberg U 2006
Orcokinin immunoreactivity in the accessory medulla of the cockroach Leucophaea maderae
Cell Tissue Res 325(3):589-600
PMID: 16628411

Wegener C, Reinl T, Jänsch L, Predel R 2006
Direct mass spectrometric profiling and fragmentation in larval peptide hormone release sites of Drosophila melanogaster reveals tagma-specific peptide expression and differential processing
J Neurochem 96(5):1362-1374
PMID: 16441518

2005

Hamasaka Y, Mohrherr C, Predel R, Wegener C 2005
Chronobiological quantification and mass spectrometric characterisation of PDF-immunoreactive material in the cockroach Leucophaea maderae
J Insect Sci 5:43
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Hamasaka Y, Wegener C, Nässel DR 2005
GABA modulates Drosophila circadian clock neurons via GABA_B receptors and decreases in calcium
J Neurobiol 65(3):225-240
PMID: 16118795

Pfeiffer K, Kinoshita M, Homberg U 2005
Polarization-sensitive and light-sensitive neurons in two parallel pathways passing through the anterior optic tubercle in the locust brain
J Neurophysiol 94(6):3903-15
PMID: 16049147

Hofer S, Dircksen H, Tollback P, Homberg U 2005
Novel insect orcokinins: Characterization and neuronal distribution in the brains of selected dicondylian insects
J Comp Neurol 490(1):57-71
PMID: 16041719

Kurylas A, Ott SR, Schachtner J, Elphick MR, Williams L, Homberg U 2005
Localisation of nitric oxide synthase in the central complex and surrounding midbrain neuropils of the locust Schistocerca gregaria.
J Comp Neurol 484(2):206-23
PMID: 15736229

Utz S, Schachtner J 2005
Development of A-type allatostatin immunoreactivity in antennal lobe neurons of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta
Cell Tissue Res 320(1):149-62
PMID: 15726421

Huetteroth W, Schachtner J 2005
Standard three-dimensional glomeruli of the Manduca sexta antennal lobe: a tool to study both developmental and adult neuronal plasticity
Cell Tissue Res 319(3):513-24
PMID: 15672266 Online Supplement

Michaelis T, Watanabe T, Natt O, Boretius S, Frahm J, Utz S, Schachtner J 2005
In vivo 3D MRI of insect brain: cerebral development during metamorphosis of Manduca sexta
Neuroimage 24(2):596-602
PMID: 15627604

2004

Homberg U, Brandl C, Clynen E, Schoofs L, Veenstra JA 2004
Mas-allatotropin/Lom-AG-myotropin I immunostaining in the brain of the locust, Schistocerca gregaria
Cell Tissue Res 318(2):439-457
PMID: 15480799

Gebhardt S, Homberg U 2004
Immunocytochemistry of histamine in the brain of the locust Schistocerca gregaria
Cell Tissue Res 317(2):195-205
PMID: 15221442

Schachtner J, Trosowski B, D´Hanis W, Stubner S, Homberg U 2004
Development and steroid regulation of RFamide immunoreactivity in antennal-lobe neurons of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta
J Exp Biol 207(Pt 14):2389-400
PMID: 15184511

Predel R, Wegener C, Russell WK, Tichy SE, Russell DH, Nachman RJ 2004
Peptidomics of CNS-associated neurohemal systems of adult Drosophila melanogaster: a mass spectrometric survey of peptides from individual flies
J Comp Neurol 474(3):379-92
PMID: 15174081

Schüler G, Mithöfer A, Baldwin IT, Berger S, Ebel J, Santos JG et al. 2004
Coronalon: a powerful tool in plant stress physiology
FEBS Lett 563:17-22
PMID: 15063716

Schachtner J, Huetteroth W, Nighorn A, Honegger HW 2004
Copper/zinc superoxide dismutase-like immunoreactivity in the metamorphosing brain of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta
J Comp Neurol 469:141-52
PMID: 14689479

Mappes M, Homberg U 2004
Behavioral analysis of polarization vision in tethered flying locusts
J Comp Physiol [A] 190:61-68
PMID: 14648100

Wegener C, Hamasaka Y, Nässel DR 2004
Acetylcholine increases intracellular Ca²⁺ via nicotinic receptors in cultured PDF-containing clock neurons
J Neurophysiol 91(2):912-923
PMID: 14534288

2003

Thomsen-Zieger N, Schachtner J, Seeber F 2003
Apicomplexan parasites contain a single lipoic acid synthase located in the plastid
FEBS Lett 547(1-3):80-6
PMID: 12860390

Homberg U, Hofer S, Pfeiffer K, Gebhardt S 2003
Organization and neural connections of the anterior optic tubercle in the brain of the locust, Schistocerca gregaria
J Comp Neurol 462:415-430
PMID: 12811810

2002

Homberg U, Paech A 2002
Ultrastructure and orientation of ommatidia in the dorsal rim area of the locust compound eye
Arthropod Struct Dev 30:271-280
PMID: 18088961

Petri B, Homberg U, Loesel R, Stengl M 2002
Evidence for a role of GABA and Mas-allatotropin in photic entrainment of the circadian clock of the cockroach Leucophaea maderae
J Exp Biol 205(Pt 10):1459-1469
PMID: 11976357

Wegener C, Herbert Z, Predel R, Eckert M 2002
The periviscerokinin (PVK) peptide family in insects: Evidence for the inclusion of CAP2b as a PVK family member
Peptides 23:605-611
PMID: 11897378

Vitzthum H, Müller M, Homberg U 2002
Neurons of the central complex of the locust Schistocerca gregaria are sensitive to polarized light
J Neurosci 22(3):1114-1125
PMID: 11826140

2001

Dubuque SH, Schachtner J, Nighorn AJ, Menon KP, Zinn K, Tolbert LP 2001
Immunolocalization of synaptotagmin for the study of synapses in the developing antennal lobe of Manduca sexta
J Comp Neurol 441(4):277-87
PMID: 11745650

Loesel R, Homberg U 2001
Anatomy and physiology of neurons with processes in the accessory medulla of the cockroach Leucophaea maderae
J Comp Neurol 439:193-207
PMID: 11596048

Fleissner Ge, Loesel R, Fleissner Gü, Waterkamp M, Kleiner O, Batschauer A, Homberg U 2001
Candidates for extraocular photoreceptors in the cockroach suggest homology to the lamina and lobula organs in beetles
J Comp Neurol 433:401-414
PMID: 11298364

Wegener C, Linde D, Eckert M 2001
Periviscerokinins in cockroaches: release, distribution and a taxon-restricted myotropic effect of Pea-periviscerokinin-1
Gen Comp Endocrinol 121:1-12
PMID: 11161765

2000

Wegener C, Nässel DR 2000
Peptide-induced Ca²⁺ movements in a tonic insect muscle: the effect of proctolin and periviscerokinin-2
J Neurophysiol 84(6):3056-3066
PMID: 11110832

Strausfeld NJ, Homberg U, Kloppenburg P 2000
Parallel organization in honey bee mushroom bodies by peptidergic Kenyon cells
J Comp Neurol 424:179-195
PMID: 10888747

Reviews

Nässel DR, Wegener C 2011
A comparative review of short and long neuropeptide F signaling in invertebrates: any similarities to vertebrate neuropeptide Y signaling?
Peptides 32:1335-1355
PMID: 21440021

Homberg U, Heinze S, Pfeiffer K, Kinoshita M, el Jundi B 2011
Central neural coding of sky polarization in insects
Phil Trans R Soc B 366:680-687
PMID: 21282171

Homberg U 2008
Evolution of the central complex in the arthropod brain with respect to the visual system
Arthropod Struct Dev 37(5):347-62
PMID: 18502176

Hauser F, Cazzamali G, Williamson M, Park Y, Li B, Tanaka Y, Predel R, Neupert S, Schachtner J, Verleyen P, Grimmelikhuijzen CJ 2008
A genome-wide inventory of neurohormone GPCRs in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
Front Neuroendocrin 29:142-165
PMID: 18054377

Predel R, Wegener C 2006
Biology of the CAPA peptides in insects
Cell Mol Life Sci 63(21):2477-2490
PMID: 16952053

Nassel DR, Homberg U 2006
Neuropeptides in interneurons of the insect brain
Cell Tissue Res 326(1):1-24
PMID: 16761145

Schachtner J, Schmidt M, Homberg U 2005
Organization and evolutionary trends of primary olfactory brain centers in Tetraconata (Crustacea + Hexapoda)
Arthropod Struct Dev 34:257-299

Homberg U, Hofer S, Mappes M, Vitzthum H, Pfeiffer K, Gebhardt S, Müller M, Paech A 2004
Neurobiology of polarization vision in the locust Schistocerca gregaria
Acta Biol Hung 55:81-89
PMID: 15270221

Homberg U 2004
In search of the sky compasss in the insect brain
Naturwissenschaften 91:199-208
PMID: 15146265

Homberg U, Reischig T, Stengl M 2003
Neural organization of the circadian system of the cockroach Leucophaea maderae
Chronobiol Int 20:577-590
PMID: 12916714

Homberg U 2002
Neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in the brain of the locust
Microsc Res Tech 56:189-209
PMID: 11810722

Other Publications

Wegener C, Neupert S, Predel R 2010
Direct MALDI-TOF mass spectrometric peptide profiling in neuroendocrine tissue of Drosophila.
In: Soloviev [Ed] "Peptidomics". Methods in Molecular Biology 615: 117-127. Humana Press. USA
http://www.springerlink.com/content/g170212543714318/

Schachtner J, Wegener C, Neupert S, Predel R 2010
Direct peptide profiling of brain tissue by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.
In: Soloviev [Ed] "Peptidomics". Methods in Molecular Biology 615: 129-135. Humana Press. USA
http://www.springerlink.com/content/t5771qt5641t0445/

Homberg U 2005
Multisensory processing in the insect brain
In: TA Christensen (ed) Advances in Insect Sensory Neuroscience CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp3-25
Yack JE, Homberg U 2003
Nervous system
In: NP Kristensen (ed) Handbook of Zoology, Vol IV: Arthropoda: Insecta, Part 35: Lepidoptera, moths and butterflies, Vol 2: Morphology, physiology and development pp229-265