Using odors to find food and mates is one of the most ancient and highly conserved
behaviors. Arthropods from flies to moths to crabs use broadly similar strategies to navigate …

Highly interconnected neural networks perform olfactory signal processing in the central
nervous system. In insects, the first synaptic processing of the olfactory input from the …

Animals form a behavioral decision by evaluating sensory evidence on the background of
past experiences and the momentary motivational state. In insects, we still lack …

The representation of odors in the locust antennal lobe with its> 2,000 glomeruli has long
remained a perplexing puzzle. We employed the CRISPR-Cas9 system to generate …

Recent advances in calcium imaging, including the development of fast and sensitive
genetically encoded indicators, high-resolution camera chips for wide-field imaging, and …

In social species, decision-making is both influenced by, and in turn influences, the social
context. This reciprocal feedback introduces coupling across scales, from the neural basis of …

Many social species are able to perform collective decisions and reach consensus.
However, how the interplay between social interactions, the diversity of preferences among …

Local interneurons (LNs) mediate complex interactions within the antennal lobe, the primary
olfactory system of insects, and the functional analog of the vertebrate olfactory bulb. In the …

Insect antennae are actively moveable, multimodal sensory organs: they are sensorimotor
systems. As such they are key to a wide range of different behaviours, ranging from spatial …

The initial representation of the instantaneous temporal information about food odor
concentration in the primary olfactory center, the antennal lobe, was examined by …