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Unexpected Evolutionary Divergence of Tachykinin-Positive Neurons Innervating the Central Complex in Hexapods. [PDF]

J Comp Neurol
The central complex is a group of midline‐spanning neuropils in the brain of insects with a key role in goal‐directed orientation and navigation. Immunolabeling in 25 species, ranging from bristletails to flies, shows that neurons containing peptides of the tachykinin family of neuropeptides are present in most species studied.
Homberg U, Xu J, Keyser T, Suzdalenkov F, Wimmer F, Fromandi M, Bianco S, Tez M, Dippel S.   +8 more
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Neural superposition and oscillations in the eye of the blowfly [PDF]

, 1987
Neural superposition in the eye of the blowfly Calliphora erythrocephala was investigated by stimulating single photoreceptors using corneal neutralization through water immersion.
D Burkhardt, H Reuter, H Reuter, J Scholes, JH Hateren van, K Kirschfeld, N Franceschini, NH Sabah, PG Lillywhite, RS Lewis, SB Laughlin, SB Laughlin, SR Shaw, SR Shaw, SR Shaw, T Matic, V Braitenberg, V Braitenberg, W Reichardt   +18 more
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Histone deacetylase enzymes as drug targets for the control of the sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina

International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance, 2015
The Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina, is an ecto-parasite that causes significant economic losses in the sheep industry. Emerging resistance to insecticides used to protect sheep from this parasite is driving the search for new drugs that act ...
Andrew C. Kotze, Barney M. Hines, Neil H. Bagnall, Clare A. Anstead, Praveer Gupta, Robert C. Reid, Angela P. Ruffell, David P. Fairlie   +7 more
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In Vivo Time- Resolved Microtomography Reveals the Mechanics of the Blowfly Flight Motor [PDF]

, 2014
Dipteran flies are amongst the smallest and most agile of flying animals. Their wings are driven indirectly by large power muscles, which cause cyclical deformations of the thorax that are amplified through the intricate wing hinge.
A Wisser, AA Biewener, Anders Hedenström, AR Ennos, BL Henke, CN Balint, CN Balint, CT Badea, D Paganin, Daniel A. Schwyn, DB Baier, F-O Lehmann, FO Lehmann, FO Lehmann, G Heide, G Heide, G Heide, G Nalbach, Graham K. Taylor, Holger G. Krapp, J Young, JA Miyan, JJ Socha, KM Gilmour, M Dickinson, M Egelhaaf, MA Beltran, Marco Stampanoni, Martina Wicklein, MH Dickinson, MH Dickinson, MH Dickinson, Michael Doube, MS Tu, MS Tu, R Van Uitert, Rajmund Mokso, RJ Bomphrey, RL Marsh, S Dubsky, Simon M. Walker, SM Walker, SN Fry, T Smyth, T Weitkamp, TJ Roberts, Tonya Müller, W Nachtigall, W Nachtigall, WP Chan   +49 more
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Spatial vision in insects is facilitated by shaping the dynamics of visual input through behavioral action [PDF]

, 2012
Egelhaaf M, Boeddeker N, Kern R, Kurtz R, Lindemann JP. Spatial vision in insects is facilitated by shaping the dynamics of visual input through behavioral action. Frontiers in Neural Circuits.
Boeddeker, Norbert, Egelhaaf, Martin , Kern, Roland , Kurtz, Rafael, Lindemann, Jens Peter   +4 more
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Fast temporal adaptation of on-off units in the first optic chiasm of the blowfly [PDF]

, 1991
We recorded from spiking units in the first optic chiasm between lamina and medulla in the brain of the blowfly (Calliphora vicina). Both previously characterized neuron types, on-off units and sustaining units, were encountered.
Hateren, J.H. van,, Jansonius, N.M.,
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Failure of Sterne- and Pasteur-Like Strains of Bacillus anthracis to Replicate and Survive in the Urban Bluebottle Blow Fly Calliphora vicina under Laboratory Conditions [PDF]

, 2014
Britta von Terzi, Peter C. B. Turnbull, Wolfgang Beyer, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Environmental and Animal Hygiene, Stuttgart, GermanySteve E. Bellan, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin,
Bellan, Steve E., Beyer, Wolfgang -Institute of Environmental and Animal Hygiene, Stuttgart, Germany, Turnbull, Peter C., von Terzi, Britta   +3 more
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Reading Mammal Diversity from Flies: The Persistence Period of Amplifiable Mammal mtDNA in Blowfly Guts (Chrysomya megacephala) and a New DNA Mini-Barcode Target.

PLoS ONE, 2015
Most tropical mammal species are threatened or data-deficient. Data collection is impeded by the traditional monitoring approaches which can be laborious, expensive and struggle to detect cryptic diversity.
Ping-Shin Lee, Kong-Wah Sing, John-James Wilson   +2 more
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An assessment of the antibacterial activity in larval excretion/secretion of four species of insects recorded in association with corpses, using Lucilia sericata Meigen as the marker species [PDF]

, 2010
The relative antibacterial activities of excretion/secretion (ES) from two carrion-feeding insects, Calliphora vicina Robineau-Desvoidy and Dermestes maculatus DeGeer, and a detritivore, Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus, were compared to that of Lucilia ...
D.E. Gennard, Gennard, K.M. Barnes, Mégnin, R.A. Dixon, Reinecke   +5 more
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FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA OF BLOWFLY METAXANTHOPSINS [PDF]

Photochemistry and Photobiology, 1990
Abstract— The main visual pigment of blowflies (xanthopsin, Vogt, 1983 Z. Naturforsch.38c,329–333) photoconverts into two thermostable metaxanthopsin states M and M'(e.g. Stavenga et al., 1984 Photochem. Photobiol.40,653–659). The fluorescence spectra of the two photoproducts were studied by microspectrofluorometry in vivo.
Kruizinga, B., Stavenga, D.G.
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