Olfaction is an essential sensory modality for insects and their olfactory environment is
mostly made up of plant-emitted volatiles. The terrestrial vegetation produces an amazing …

Insects can perform impressive feats of navigation, suggesting a sophisticated sense of
direction and an ability to choose appropriate trajectories toward ethological goals. The …

Flexible behaviors over long timescales are thought to engage recurrent neural networks in
deep brain regions, which are experimentally challenging to study. In insects, recurrent …

Animals generate neural representations of their heading direction. Notably, in insects,
heading direction is topographically represented by the activity of neurons in the central …

Nervous systems contain sensory neurons, local neurons, projection neurons, and motor
neurons. To understand how these building blocks form whole circuits, we must distil these …

Many animals rely on an internal heading representation when navigating in varied
environments,,,,,,,,–. How this representation is linked to the sensory cues that define …

Spatial maps in the brain are most accurate when they are linked to external sensory cues.
Here, we show that the compass in the Drosophila brain is linked to the direction of the wind …

To navigate towards a food source, animals frequently combine odor cues about source
identity with wind direction cues about source location. Where and how these two cues are …

Odour plumes in the wild are spatially complex and rapidly fluctuating structures carried by
turbulent airflows,,–. To successfully navigate plumes in search of food and mates, insects …

The insect central complex (CX) is thought to underlie goal-oriented navigation but its
functional organization is not fully understood. We recorded from genetically-identified CX …