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Ten selected Publications

• Zittrell, F., Pfeiffer, K., & Homberg, U. (2020)
  Matched-filter coding of sky polarization results in an internal sun compass in the brain of the desert locust.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A, 117:25810-25817.
  doi: 10.1073/pnas.2005192117
  
  
• Bockhorst, T. & Homberg, U. (2017):
  Interaction of compass sensing and object-motion detection in the locust central complex.
  Journal of Neurophysiology, 118:496-506.
  doi:10.1152/jn.00927.2016
  
  
• Bech, M., Homberg, U., & Pfeiffer, K. (2014):
  Receptive fields of locust brain neurons are matched to polarization patterns of the sky.
  Current Biology, 24:2124-2129.
  doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.045
  
  
• Heinze, S. & Homberg, U. (2007):
  Maplike representation of celestial E-vector orientations in the brain of an insect.
  Science, 315:995-997.
  doi: 10.1126/science.1135531
  
  
• Pfeiffer, K. & Homberg, U. (2007):
  Coding of azimuthal directions via time-compensated combination of celestial compass cues.
  Current Biology, 17:960-965.
  doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.04.059
  
  
• Vitzthum, H., Müller, M. & Homberg, U. (2002):
  Neurons of the central complex of the locust Schistocerca gregaria are sensitive to polarized light.
  Journal of Neuroscience, 22:1114-1125
  
  
• Homberg, U., Vitzthum, H., Müller, M. & Binkle, U. (1999):
  Immunocytochemistry of GABA in the central complex of the locust Schistocerca gregaria: Identification of immunoreactive cells and colocalization with neuropeptides.
  The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 409:495-507.
  doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990705)409:3
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• Homberg, U., Würden, S., Dircksen, H. & Rao, K.R. (1991):
  Comparative anatomy of pigment-dispersing hormone-immunoreactive neurons in the brain of orthopteroid insects.
  Cell and Tissue Research, 266:343-357.
  doi.org/10.1007/BF00318190
  
  
• Homberg, U., Christensen, T.A. & Hildebrand, J.G. (1989):
  Structure and functions of the deutocerebrum in insects.
  Annual Review of Entomology, 34:477-501.
  doi: 10.1146/annurev.en.34.010189.002401
  
  
• Homberg, U. (1984):
  Processing of antennal information in extrinsic mushroom body neurons of the bee brain.
  Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 154:825-836.
  doi: 10.1007/BF00610683