Many of the internal organ systems of Drosophila melanogaster are functionally analogous
to those in vertebrates, including humans. Although humans and flies differ greatly in terms …

This review surveys the organization of the olfactory and gustatory systems in the imago and
in the larva of Drosophila melanogaster, both at the sensory and the central level. Olfactory …

Golgi studies of the neurons in the optic lobes of Drosophila melanogaster reveal a large
number of neuronal cell types. These can be classified as either columnar or tangential …

Caenorhabditis elegans explores its environment by interrupting its forward movement with
occasional turns and reversals. Turns and reversals occur at stable frequencies but irregular …

Optically gated ion channels were expressed in circumscribed groups of neurons in the
Drosophila CNS so that broad illumination of flies evoked action potentials only in …

We discovered a bimodal behavior in the genetically tractable organism Drosophila
melanogaster that allowed us to directly probe the neural mechanisms of an action selection …

Identified neuron classes in vertebrate cortical [1–4] and subcortical [5–8] areas and
invertebrate peripheral [9–11] and central [12–14] brain neuropils encode specific visual …

This book is written for our friends in Germany and abroad to give an account of our main
interests during the last years. We gratefully take the opportunity provided by Springer …

A key feature of reactive behaviors is the ability to spatially localize a salient stimulus and act
accordingly. Such sensory-motor transformations must be particularly fast and well tuned in …

Behavioural responses to wind are thought to have a critical role in controlling the dispersal
and population genetics of wild Drosophila species,, as well as their navigation in flight, but …