Publikationen

• Escudero Castelan, N., Semmens, D. C., Guerra, L. A. Y., Zandawala, M., Dos Reis, M., Slade, S. E., Scrivens, J. H., Zampronio, C. G., Jones, A. M., Mirabeau, O., and Elphick, M. R. (2022) Receptor deorphanization in an echinoderm reveals kisspeptin evolution and relationship with {SALMFamide} neuropeptides, BMC Biol 20, 187.
• Deppisch, P., Helfrich-Förster, C., and Senthilan, P. R. (2022) The Gain and Loss of Cryptochrome/Photolyase Family Members during Evolution, Genes 13.
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• Wegener, C., and Chen, J. (2022) Allatostatin A Signalling: Progress and New Challenges From a Paradigmatic Pleiotropic Invertebrate Neuropeptide Family, Front Physiol 13, 920529.
• Zurl, M., Poehn, B., Rieger, D., Krishnan, S., Rokvic, D., Rajan, V. B. V., Gerrard, E., Schlichting, M., Orel, L., Ćorić, A., Lucas, R. J., Wolf, E., Helfrich-Förster, C., Raible, F., and Tessmar-Raible, K. (2022) Two light sensors decode moonlight versus sunlight to adjust a plastic circadian/circalunidian clock to moon phase, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2115725119.
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• Reinhard, N., Schubert, F. K., Bertolini, E., Hagedorn, N., Manoli, G., Sekiguchi, M., Yoshii, T., Rieger, D., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2022) The Neuronal Circuit of the Dorsal Circadian Clock Neurons in Drosophila melanogaster, Frontiers in Physiology 13.
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• Deppisch, P., Prutscher, J. M., Pegoraro, M., Tauber, E., Wegener, C., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2022) Adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster to Long Photoperiods of High-Latitude Summers Is Facilitated by the ls-Timeless Allele, Journal of Biological Rhythms.
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• Helfrich-Foerster, C. et.al. (2022) Adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster to long photoperiods of high-latitude summers is facilitated by the ls-timeless allele, Journal of Biological Rhythms.
• Zupanc, G. K. H., Arikawa, K., Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C., Homberg, U., Narins, P. M., R{\"o}ssler, W., Simmons, A. M., and Warrant, E. J. (2022) It’s all about seeing and hearing: the Editors’ and Readers’ Choice Awards 2022, Journal of Comparative Physiology A.
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• Reinhard, N., Bertolini, E., Saito, A., Sekiguchi, M., Yoshii, T., Rieger, D., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2022) The lateral posterior clock neurons of Drosophila melanogaster express three neuropeptides and have multiple connections within the circadian clock network and beyond, Journal of Comparative Neurology n/a.
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• Nässel, D. R., and Zandawala, M. (2022) Endocrine cybernetics: neuropeptides as molecular switches in behavioural decisions, Open Biol 12, 220174.

• Zandawala, M., Nguyen, T., Balanyà Segura, M., Johard, H. A. D., Amcoff, M., Wegener, C., Paluzzi, J.-P., and Nässel, D. R. (2021) A neuroendocrine pathway modulating osmotic stress in Drosophila, PLOS Genetics 17, 1–31.
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• Habenstein, J., Schmitt, F., Liessem, S., Ly, A., Trede, D., Wegener, C., Predel, R., Rössler, W., and Neupert, S. (2021) Transcriptomic, peptidomic and mass spectrometry imaging analysis of the brain in the ant Cataglyphis nodus, Journal of Neurochemistry.
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• Zandawala, M., Nguyen, T., Balanyà Segura, M., Johard, H. A. D., Amcoff, M., Wegener, C., Paluzzi, J.-P., and Nässel, D. R. (2021) A neuroendocrine pathway modulating osmotic stress in Drosophila, PLOS Genetics 17, 1–31.
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• Ruf, F., Mitesser, O., Mungwa, S. T., Horn, M., Rieger, D., Hovestadt, T., and Wegener, C. (2021) Natural Zeitgebers Under Temperate Conditions Cannot Compensate for the Loss of a Functional Circadian Clock in Timing of a Vital Behavior in Drosophila, Journal of Biological Rhythms.
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• Pauls, D., Selcho, M., Räderscheidt, J., Amatobi, K. M., Fekete, A., Krischke, M., Hermann-Luibl, C., Ozbek-Unal, A. G., Ehmann, N., Itskov, P. M., Kittel, R. J., Helfrich-Förster, C., Kühnlein, R. P., Mueller, M. J., and Wegener, C. (2021) Endocrine signals fine-tune daily activity patterns in Drosophila, Current Biology.
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• Bertolini, E., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2021) -Sleep and the Circadian Clock in Insects☆. In Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, Elsevier.
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• Breitenbach, T., Helfrich-Förster, C., and Dandekar, T. (2021) An effective model of endogenous clocks and external stimuli determining circadian rhythms, Scientific Reports 11, 16165.
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• Pütz, S. M., Kram, J., Rauh, E., Kaiser, S., Toews, R., Lueningschroer-Wang, Y., Rieger, D., and Raabe, T. (2021) Loss of p21-activated kinase Mbt/PAK4 causes Parkinson-like phenotypes in Drosophila, Disease Models & Mechanisms 14.
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• Wehr, T. A., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2021) Longitudinal observations call into question the scientific consensus that humans are unaffected by lunar cycles, BioEssays n/a, 2100054.
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• Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C., Monecke, S., Spiousas, I., Hovestadt, T., Mitesser, O., and Wehr, T. A. (2021) Women temporarily synchronize their menstrual cycles with the luminance and gravimetric cycles of the Moon, Science Advances 7.
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• Colizzi, F. S., Beer, K., Cuti, P., Deppisch, P., Martínez Torres, D., Yoshii, T., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2021) Antibodies Against the Clock Proteins Period and Cryptochrome Reveal the Neuronal Organization of the Circadian Clock in the Pea Aphid, Frontiers in Physiology 12, 988.
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• Beer, K., Härtel, S., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2021) The Pigment-Dispersing Factor neuronal network systematically grows in developing honey bees, Journal of Comparative Neurology n/a.
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• Vaze, K. M., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2021) The Neuropeptide PDF Is Crucial for Delaying the Phase of Drosophila’s Evening Neurons Under Long Zeitgeber Periods, Journal of Biological Rhythms 36, 442–460.
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• Nässel, D., and Zandawala, M. (2020) Hormonal axes in Drosophila: regulation of hormone release and multiplicity of actions, Cell and Tissue Research 382.
• Schabler, S., Amatobi, K. M., Horn, M., Rieger, D., Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C., Mueller, M. J., Wegener, C., and Fekete, A. (2020) Loss of function in the Drosophila clock gene period results in altered intermediary lipid metabolism and increased susceptibility to starvation, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences.
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• Schubert, F. K., Helfrich-Förster, C., and Rieger, D. (2020) Single-cell resolution long-term luciferase imaging in cultivated Drosophila brains, microPublication Biology.
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• Menegazzi, P., Beer, K., Grebler, V., Schlichting, M., Schubert, F. K., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2020) A Functional Clock Within the Main Morning and Evening Neurons of D. melanogaster Is Not Sufficient for Wild-Type Locomotor Activity Under Changing Day Length, Frontiers in Physiology 11, 229.
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• Scheiner, R., Frantzmann, F., Jäger, M., Mitesser, O., Helfrich-Förster, C., and Pauls, D. (2020) A Novel Thermal-Visual Place Learning Paradigm for Honeybees (Apis mellifera), Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 14, 56.
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• Pegoraro, M., Flavell, L. M. M., Menegazzi, P., Colombi, P., Dao, P., Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C., and Tauber, E. (2020) The genetic basis of diurnal preference in Drosophila melanogaster, BMC Genomics 21, 596.
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• Beer, K., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2020) Post-embryonic Development of the Circadian Clock Seems to Correlate With Social Life Style in Bees, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 8, 1325.
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• Fernandez-Chiappe, F., Hermann-Luibl, C., Peteranderl, A., Reinhard, N., Senthilan, P. R., Hieke, M., Selcho, M., Yoshii, T., Shafer, O. T., Muraro, N. I., and Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C. (2020) Dopamine signaling in wake promoting clock neurons is not required for the normal regulation of sleep in Drosophila, Journal of Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience.
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• Beer, K., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2020) Model and Non-model Insects in Chronobiology, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 14, 221.
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• Bertolini, E., Schubert, F. K., Zanini, D., Sehadová, H., Helfrich-Förster, C., and Menegazzi, P. (2019) Life at High Latitudes Does Not Require Circadian Behavioral Rhythmicity under Constant Darkness, Current Biology.
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• Helfrich-Förster, C. (2019) Light input pathways to the circadian clock of insects with an emphasis on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, Journal of Comparative Physiology A 1–14.
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• Nässel, D. R., and Zandawala, M. (2019) Recent advances in neuropeptide signaling in Drosophila, from genes to physiology and behavior, Progress in Neurobiology 179, 101607.
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• Lyutova, R., Selcho, M., Pfeuffer, M., Segebarth, D., Habenstein, J., Rohwedder, A., Frantzmann, F., Wegener, C., Thum, A. S., and Pauls, D. (2019) Reward signaling in a recurrent circuit of dopaminergic neurons and peptidergic Kenyon cells, Nature Communications 10, 3097-.
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• Pauls, D., Hamarat, Y., Trufasu, L., Schendzielorz, T. M., Gramlich, G., Kahnt, J., Vanselow, J. T., Schlosser, A., and Wegener, C. (2019) Drosophila carboxypeptidase D (SILVER) is a key enzyme in neuropeptide processing required to maintain locomotor activity levels and survival rate, European Journal of Neuroscience.
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• Schlichting, M., Menegazzi, P., Rosbash, M., and Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C. (2019) A distinct visual pathway mediates high light intensity adaptation of the circadian clock in Drosophila, Journal of Neuroscience.
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• Nässel, D. R., Zandawala, M., Kawada, T., and Satake, H. (2019) Tachykinins: Neuropeptides That Are Ancient, Diverse, Widespread and Functionally Pleiotropic, Frontiers in Neuroscience 13, 1262.
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• Odekunle, E. A., Semmens, D. C., Martynyuk, N., Tinoco, A. B., Garewal, A. K., Patel, R. R., Blowes, L. M., Zandawala, M., Delroisse, J., Slade, S. E., Scrivens, J. H., Egertová, M., and Elphick, M. R. (2019) Ancient role of vasopressin/oxytocin-type neuropeptides as regulators of feeding revealed in an echinoderm, BMC Biology 17, 60-.
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• Senthilan, P. R., Grebler, R., Reinhard, N., Rieger, D., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2019) Role of Rhodopsins as Circadian Photoreceptors in the Drosophila melanogaster, Biology 8, 6.
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• Cederroth, C. R., Albrecht, U., Bass, J., Brown, S. A., Dyhrfjeld-Johnsen, J., Gachon, F., Green, C. B., Hastings, M. H., Helfrich-Förster, C., Hogenesch, J. B., Lévi, F., Loudon, A., Lundkvist, G. B., Meijer, J. H., Rosbash, M., Takahashi, J. S., Young, M., and Canlon, B. (2019) Medicine in the Fourth Dimension, Cell Metabolism 30, 238–250.
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• Nagy, D., Cusumano, P., Andreatta, G., Anduaga, A. M., Hermann-Luibl, C., Reinhard, N., Gesto, J., Wegener, C., Mazzotta, G., Rosato, E., Kyriacou, C. P., Helfrich-Förster, C., and Costa, R. (2019) Peptidergic signaling from clock neurons regulates reproductive dormancy in Drosophila melanogaster, PLOS Genetics 15, 1–25.
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• Nässel, D. R., Pauls, D., and Huetteroth, W. (2019) Neuropeptides in modulation of Drosophila behavior: how to get a grip on their pleiotropic actions, Current Opinion in Insect Science 36, 1–8.
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• Megha, Wegener, C., and Hasan, G. (2019) ER-Ca2+ sensor STIM regulates neuropeptides required for development under nutrient restriction in Drosophila, PLOS ONE 14, 1–22.
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• Helfrich-Förster, C. (2019) Flies’ colour preferences depend on the time of day, Nature 574, 43–44.
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• Horn, M., Mitesser, O., Hovestadt, T., Yoshii, T., Rieger, D., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2019) The Circadian Clock Improves Fitness in the Fruit Fly, Drosophila melanogaster, Frontiers in Physiology 10, 1374.
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• Schlichting, M., Weidner, P., Diaz, M., Menegazzi, P., Dalla-Benetta, E., Helfrich-Foerster, C., and Rosbash, M. (2019) Light-mediated circuit switching in the Drosophila neuronal clock network, bioRxiv 515478.
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• Helfrich-Förster, C. (2019) Polarization Vision: Targets of Polarization-Sensitive Photoreceptors in the Drosophila Visual System, Current Biology 29, R839 - R842.
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• Yurgel, M. E., Kakad, P., Zandawala, M., Nässel, D. R., Godenschwege, T. A., and Keene, A. C. (2019) A single pair of leucokinin neurons are modulated by feeding state and regulate sleep–metabolism interactions, PLOS Biology 17, 1–26.
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• Schubert, F. K., Hagedorn, N., Yoshii, T., Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C., and Rieger, D. (2018) Neuroanatomical details of the lateral neurons of Drosophila melanogaster support their functional role in the circadian system, J Comp Neurol 526, 1209–1231.
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• Kay, J., Menegazzi, P., Mildner, S., Roces, F., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2018) The Circadian Clock of the Ant Camponotus floridanus Is Localized in Dorsal and Lateral Neurons of the Brain, Journal of biological rhythms 33, 255–271.
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• Zandawala, M., Tian, S., and Elphick, M. R. (2018) The evolution and nomenclature of GnRH-type and corazonin-type neuropeptide signaling systems., General and comparative endocrinology 264, 64–77.
• Zandawala, M., Yurgel, M. E., Texada, M. J., Liao, S., Rewitz, K. F., Keene, A. C., and Nässel, D. R. (2018) Modulation of Drosophila post-feeding physiology and behavior by the neuropeptide leucokinin, PLOS Genetics 14, 1–31.
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• Kunz, T. O., Chen, J., Megha, and Wegener, C. (2018) Metabolic Labeling to Quantify Drosophila Neuropeptides and Peptide Hormones. In Peptidomics: Methods and Strategies (Schrader, M., and Fricker, L., Eds.), pp. 175–185.
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• Beck, K., Hovhanyan, A., Menegazzi, P., Helfrich-Förster, C., and Raabe, T. (2018) Drosophila {RSK} Influences the Pace of the Circadian Clock by Negative Regulation of Protein Kinase Shaggy Activity, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 11, 122.
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• Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C., Bertolini, E., and Menegazzi, P. (2018) Flies as models for circadian clock adaptation to environmental challenges, European Journal of Neuroscience.
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• Pauls, D., Blechschmidt, C., Frantzmann, F., el Jundi, B., and Selcho, M. (2018) A comprehensive anatomical map of the peripheral octopaminergic/tyraminergic system of Drosophila melanogaster, Scientific Reports 8, 15314.
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• Fujiwara, Y., Hermann-Luibl, C., Katsura, M., Sekiguchi, M., Ida, T., Helfrich-Förster, C., and Yoshii, T. (2018) The CCHamide1 neuropeptide expressed in the anterior dorsal neuron 1 conveys a circadian signal to the ventral lateral neurons in Drosophila melanogaster, Frontiers in physiology 9, 1276.
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• Beck, S., Yu-Strzelczyk, J., Pauls, D., Constantin, O. M., Gee, C. E., Ehmann, N., Kittel, R. J., Nagel, G., and Gao, S. (2018) Synthetic Light-Activated Ion Channels for Optogenetic Activation and Inhibition, Frontiers in Neuroscience 12, 643.
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• Schlichting, M., Rieger, D., Cusumano, P., Grebler, R., Costa, R., Mazzotta, G., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2018) Cryptochrome interacts with actin and enhances eye-mediated light sensitivity of the circadian clock in Drosophila melanogaster, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 11, 238.
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• Schubert, F. (2018) The circadian clock network of Drosophila melanogaster, PhD Thesis, University of Wuerzburg.
• Helfrich-Förster, C. (2018) Sleep in Insects, Annual Review of Entomology 63.
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• Beauchamp, M., Bertolini, E., Deppisch, P., Steubing, J., Menegazzi, P., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2018) Closely Related Fruit Fly Species Living at Different Latitudes Diverge in Their Circadian Clock Anatomy and Rhythmic Behavior, Journal of Biological Rhythms 33, 602–613.
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• Bertolini, E., Kistenpfennig, C., Menegazzi, P., Keller, A., Koukidou, M., and Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C. (2018) The characterization of the circadian clock in the olive fly Bactrocera oleae (Diptera: Tephritidae) reveals a Drosophila-like organization, Sci Reports 8, 816.
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• Beer, K. (2018) A comparison of the circadian clock of highly social bees (Apis mellifera) and solitary bees (Osmia spec.): Circadian clock development, behavioral rhythms and neuroanatomical characterization of two central clock components (PER and PDF), PhD Thesis, University of Wuerzburg.
• Kay, J. (2018) The circadian clock of the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus, PhD Thesis, University of Wuerzburg.
• Selkrig, J., Mohammad, F., Ng, S. H., Chua, J. Y., Tumkaya, T., Ho, J., Chiang, Y. N., Rieger, D., Pettersson, S., Helfrich-Foerster, C., and others. (2018) The Drosophila microbiome has a limited influence on sleep, activity, and courtship behaviors, Scientific reports 8, 10646.
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• Selcho, M., M{\"u}hlbauer, B., Hensgen, R., Shiga, S., Wegener, C., and Yasuyama, K. (2018) Anatomical characterization of PDF-Tri neurons and peptidergic neurons associated with eclosion behavior in Drosophila, Journal of Comparative Neurology 526, 1307–1328.
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• Beer, K., Kolbe, E., Kahana, N. B., Yayon, N., Weiss, R., Menegazzi, P., Bloch, G., and Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C. (2018) Pigment-Dispersing Factor-expressing neurons convey circadian information in the honey bee brain, Open Biology 8, 170224.
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• Pilorz, V., Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C., and Oster, H. (2018) The role of the circadian clock system in physiology, Pfl{\"u}gers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology.
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• Predel, R., Neupert, S., Derst, C., Reinhardt, K., and Wegener, C. (2018) Neuropeptidomics of the Bed Bug Cimex lectularius, Journal of Proteome Research 17, 440–454.
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• Zandawala, M., Marley, R., Davies, S. A., and Nässel, D. R. (2018) Characterization of a set of abdominal neuroendocrine cells that regulate stress physiology using colocalized diuretic peptides in Drosophila, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 75, 1099–1115.
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• Volberg, G., Chockley, A., and Greenlee, M. (2017) Do graphemes attract spatial attention in grapheme-color synesthesia?, Neuropsychologia 99, 101–111.
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• Grebler, R., Kistenpfennig, C., Rieger, D., Bentrop, J., Schneuwly, S., Senthilan, P. R., and Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C. (2017) Drosophila Rhodopsin 7 can partially replace the structural role of Rhodopsin 1, but not its physiological function, Journal of Comparative Physiology A 1–11.
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• Yeoh, J. G., Pandit, A. A., Zandawala, M., Nässel, D. R., Davies, S.-A., and Dow, J. A. (2017) DINeR: Database for Insect Neuropeptide Research, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 86, 9–19.
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• Frenkel, L., Muraro, N. I., González, A. N. B., Marcora, M. S., Bernabó, G., Hermann-Luibl, C., Romero, J. I., Helfrich-Förster, C., Castaño, E. M., Marino-Busjle, C., Calvo, D. J., and Ceriani, M. F. (2017) Organization of Circadian Behavior Relies on Glycinergic Transmission, Cell Reports 19, 72–85.
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• Benna, C., Helfrich-Förster, C., Rajendran, S., Monticelli, H., Pilati, P., Nitti, D., and Mocellin, S. (2017) Genetic variation of clock genes and cancer risk: a field synopsis and meta-analysis, Oncotarget.
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• Menegazzi, P., Benetta, E. D., Beauchamp, M., Schlichting, M., Steffan-Dewenter, I., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2017) Adaptation of circadian neuronal network to photoperiod in high-latitude European Drosophilids, CURR BIOL 27, 833–839.
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• Ruf, F. (2017) The circadian regulation of eclosion in Drosophila melanogaster, PhD Thesis, University of Wuerzburg.
• Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C. (2017) The Drosophila Clock System. In Biological Timekeeping: Clocks, Rhythms and Behaviour (Kumar, V., Ed.), pp. 133–176, Springer India, New Delhi.
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• Fuchikawa, T., Beer, K., Linke-Winnebeck, C., Ben-David, R., Kotowoy, A., Tsang, V., Warman, G., Winnebeck, E., Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C., and Bloch, G. (2017) Neuronal circadian clock protein oscillations are similar in behaviourally rhythmic forager honeybees and in arrhythmic nurses, Open Biology 7, 170047.
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• Kistenpfennig, C., Grebler, R., Ogueta, M., Hermann-Luibl, C., Schlichting, M., Stanewsky, R., Senthilan, P. R., and Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C. (2017) A new Rhodopsin influences light-dependent daily activity patterns of fruit flies, Journal of biological rhythms 32, 406–422.
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• Ruf, F., Fraunholz, M., {\"O}chsner, K., Kaderschabek, J., and Wegener, C. (2017) WEclMon--A simple and robust camera-based system to monitor Drosophila eclosion under optogenetic manipulation and natural conditions, PloS one 12, e0180238.
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• Selcho, M., Mill{\’a}n, C., Palacios-Mu{\~n}oz, A., Ruf, F., Ubillo, L., Chen, J., Bergmann, G., Ito, C., Silva, V., Wegener, C., and others. (2017) Central and peripheral clocks are coupled by a neuropeptide pathway in Drosophila, Nature Communications 8, 8:15563.
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• Martelli, C., Pech, U., Kobbenbring, S., Pauls, D., Bahl, B., Sommer, M. V., Pooryasin, A., Barth, J., Arias, C. W. P., Vassiliou, C., Luna, A. J. F., Poppinga, H., Richter, F. G., Wegener, C., Fiala, A., and Riemensperger, T. (2017) SIFamide Translates Hunger Signals into Appetitive and Feeding Behavior in Drosophila, Cell Reports 20, 464–478.
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• Schmitt, F., Vanselow, J. T., Schlosser, A., Wegener, C., and R{\"o}ssler, W. (2017) Neuropeptides in the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis: Mass spectrometric analysis, localization, and age-related changes, J Comp Neurol 525, 901–918.
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• Widmann, A., Eichler, K., Selcho, M., Thum, A. S., and Pauls, D. (2017) Odor-taste Learning in Drosophila Larvae, Journal of Insect Physiology.
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• Berlandi, J., Lin, F.-J., Ambrée, O., Rieger, D., Paulus, W., and Jeibmann, A. (2017) Swing Boat: Inducing and Recording Locomotor Activity in a Drosophila melanogaster Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 11, 159.
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• Zotzmann, S., Steinbrink, A., Schleich, K., Frantzmann, F., Xoumpholphakdy, C., Spaeth, M., Moro, C. V., Mavingui, P., and Klimpel, S. (2017) Bacterial diversity of cosmopolitan Culex pipiens and invasive Aedes japonicus from Germany, Parasitology Research 116, 1899–1906.
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• Kistenpfennig, C., Nakayama, M., Nihara, R., Tomioka, K., Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C., and Yoshii, T. (2017) A Tug-of-War between Cryptochrome and the Visual System Allows the Adaptation of Evening Activity to Long Photoperiods in Drosophila melanogaster., Journal of biological rhythms 33, 24–34.
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• Beer, K., Joschinski, J., Arrazola Sastre, A., Krauss, J., and Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, C. (2017) A damping circadian clock drives weak oscillations in metabolism and locomotor activity of aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum), Sci Rep 7, 14906–14906.
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• Zandawala, M., Moghul, I., Yañez Guerra, L. A., Delroisse, J., Abylkassimova, N., Hugall, A. F., O’Hara, T. D., and Elphick, M. R. (2017) Discovery of novel representatives of bilaterian neuropeptide families and reconstruction of neuropeptide precursor evolution in ophiuroid echinoderms, Open Biology 7, 170129.
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• Beer, K., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Härtel, S., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2016) A new device for monitoring individual activity rhythms of honey bees reveals critical effects of the social environment on behavior, J Comp Physiol A 202, 555–565.
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• Jones, C. E., Zandawala, M., Semmens, D. C., Anderson, S., Hanson, G. R., Janies, D. A., and Elphick, M. R. (2016) Identification of a neuropeptide precursor protein that gives rise to a “cocktail” of peptides that bind Cu(II) and generate metal-linked dimers, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects 1860, 57–66.
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• Redondo, B. B., Bunz, M., Halder, P., Sadanandappa, M. K., Mühlbauer, B., Erwin, F., Hofbauer, A., Rodrigues, V., VijayRaghavan, K., Ramaswami, M., Rieger, D., Wegener, C., Helfrich-Förster, C., and Buchner, E. (2013) Identification and structural characterization of interneurons of the Drosophila brain by monoclonal antibodies of the Würzburg Hybridoma Library, PLOS ONE 8, 1–9.
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• Vaze, K. M., Kannan, N. N., Abhilash, L., and Sharma, V. K. (2012) Chronotype differences in Drosophila are enhanced by semi-natural conditions, Naturwissenschaften 99, 967–971.
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• Yoshii, T., Rieger, D., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2012) Two clocks in the brain. In Progress in Brain Research, pp. 59–82, Elsevier {BV}.
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• Menegazzi, P., Yoshii, T., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2012) Laboratory versus Nature The Two Sides of the Drosophila Circadian Clock, J Biol Rhythms 27, 433–442.
• Hermann, C., Yoshii, T., Dusik, V., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2012) Neuropeptide F immunoreactive clock neurons modify evening locomotor activity and free-running period in Drosophila melanogaster, J Comp Neurol 520, 970–987.
• Bywalez, W., Menegazzi, P., Rieger, D., Schmid, B., Helfrich-Förster, C., and Yoshii, T. (2012) The dual-oscillator system of Drosophila melanogaster under natural-like temperature cycles, Chronobiol Int 29, 395–407.
• Kauranen, H., Menegazzi, P., Costa, R., Helfrich-Förster, C., Kankainen, A., and Hoikkala, A. (2012) Flies in the north: Locomotor behavior and clock neuron organization of Drosophila montana, J Biol Rhythms 27, 377–387.
• Bartlang, M. S., Neumann, I. D., Slattery, D. A., Uschold-Schmidt, N., Kraus, D., Helfrich-Förster, C., and Reber, S. O. (2012) Time matters: pathological effects of repeated psychosocial stress during the active, but not inactive, phase of male mice, J Endocrinol 215, 425–437.
• Rieger, D., Peschel, N., Dusik, V., Glotz, S., and Helfrich-Förster, C. (2012) The ability to entrain to long photoperiods differs between 3 Drosophila melanogaster wild-type strains and is modified by twilight simulation, J Biol Rhythms 27, 37–47.
• Huser, A., Rohwedder, A., Apostolopoulou, A. A., Widmann, A., Pfitzenmaier, J. E., Maiolo, E. M., Selcho, M., Pauls, D., von Essen, A., Gupta, T., and others. (2012) The serotonergic central nervous system of the Drosophila larva: anatomy and behavioral function, PLoS One 7, e47518.
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• Reiher, W., Shirras, C., Kahnt, J., Baumeister, S., Isaac, R. E., and Wegener, C. (2011) Peptidomics and Peptide Hormone Processing in the Drosophila Midgut, J Proteome Res 10, 1881–1892.
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• Zandawala, M., Paluzzi, J.-P., and Orchard, I. (2011) Isolation and characterization of the cDNA encoding DH31 in the kissing bug, Rhodnius prolixus, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 331, 79–88.
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• Thum, A., Leisibach, B., Gendre, N., Selcho, M., and Stocker, R. (2011) Diversity, variability, and suboesophageal connectivity of antennal lobe neurons in D. melanogaster larvae, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 519, 3415–3432.
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