… 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 …

Despite the importance of the insect nervous system for functional and developmental
neuroscience, descriptions of insect brains have suffered from a lack of uniform nomenclature. …

Mushroom bodies are prominent neuropils found in annelids and in all arthropod groups
except crustaceans. First explicitly identified in 1850, the mushroom bodies differ in size and …

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 …

Although the importance of theDrosophila mushroom body in olfactory learning and
memory has been stressed, virtually nothing is known about the brain regions to which it is …

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

Studies of the mushroom bodies of Drosophila melanogaster have suggested that their gamma
lobes specifically support short‐term memory, whereas their vertical lobes are essential …

Insects and other arthropods use visual landmarks to remember the location of their nest, or
its equivalent. However, so far, only olfactory learning and memory have been claimed to be …

In the eye, visual information is segregated into modalities such as color and motion, these
being transferred to the central brain through separate channels. Here, we genetically dissect …

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 …