… embryonic development and thereby drastically reduce the size of the antennal lobes and
their connections to the calyces do not reduce the number of laminae (NJ Strausfeld, unpubl.). …

The arthropod central complex and vertebrate basal ganglia derive from embryonic basal
forebrain lineages that are specified by an evolutionarily conserved genetic program leading …

In both vertebrates and invertebrates, odorant molecules reach the dendrites of olfactory
receptor cells through an aqueous medium, which reflects the evolutionary origin of these …

Morphology and physiology are two fields which cannot be separated. This statement needs
to be amplified: purely factual results of a morphological or physiological nature only have …

… We thank Sylvia Anton, Ann-Shyn Chiang, Ron Davis, Barry Dickson, Randolf Menzel, Jü
rgen Rybak, and Camilla Strausfeld for critically reading and giving helpful comments on an …

… Nicholas Strausfeld elucidates the evolution of this knowledge, beginning with nineteenth-…
Writing in a style that will appeal to a broad readership, Strausfeld weaves anatomical …

… Vilinsky and NJ Strausfeld, in prep.), collar and flies were submerged in five parts 2.5%
potassium dichromate and one part 25% EM-grade glutaraldehyde (Electron Microscopy …

Phylogenetically conserved brain centers known as mushroom bodies are implicated in
insect associative learning and in several other aspects of insect behavior. Kenyon cells, the …

… inputs and the dendritic domains of class I Kenyon cells, are each represented in the
lobes by immunoreactive layers that subdivide the lobes into three parallel divisions (Strausfeld …

… trast, cobalt fills into one of the optic lobes of Periplaneta reveal but a single axon to the
calyces on the same side of the brain (Li and Strausfeld, unpublished observations). However, …