Organisms as diverse as microbes, roundworms, insects, and mammals detect and respond
to applied force. In animals, this ability depends on ionotropic force receptors, known as …

Whilst acoustic communication forms an integral component of the mating behavior of many
insect species, it is particularly crucial for disease-transmitting mosquitoes; swarming males …

Hearing is essential for the courtship of one of the major carriers of human disease, the
mosquito. Males locate females through flight-tone recognition and both sexes engage in …

Insect hearing has independently evolved multiple times in the context of intraspecific
communication and predator detection by transforming proprioceptive organs into ears …

Wind is a major navigational cue for insects, but how wind direction is decoded by central
neurons in the insect brain is unknown. Here we find that walking flies combine signals from …

The evolution of hearing in terrestrial animals has resulted in remarkable adaptations
enabling exquisitely sensitive sound detection by the ear and sophisticated sound analysis …

Circadian clocks attune the physiology of virtually all living organisms to the diurnal cycles of
their environments. In metazoan animals, multiple sensory input pathways have been linked …

The performance of vertebrate ears is controlled by auditory efferents that originate in the
brain and innervate the ear, synapsing onto hair cell somata and auditory afferent fibers [1 …

Diverse mechanosensory neurons detect different mechanical forces that can impact animal
behavior. Yet our understanding of the anatomical and physiological diversity of these …

To faithfully encode complex stimuli, sensory neurons should correct, via adaptation, for
stimulus properties that corrupt pattern recognition. Here we investigate sound intensity …