Navigating the most challenging habitats on earth: unravelling the architecture of a universal compass system

Project Information

UltimateCOMPASS

Grant agreement ID: 817535

DOI 10.3030/817535

EC signature date 28 February 2019

Start date 1 June 2019

End date 31 May 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 994 225,00

EU contribution € 1 994 225,00

Coordinated by

LUNDS UNIVERSITET
Sweden

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Light pollution forces a change in dung beetle orientation behavior

Author(s): James J. Foster, Claudia Tocco, Jochen Smolka, Lana Khaldy, Emily Baird, Marcus J. Byrne, Dan-Eric Nilsson, Marie Dacke
Published in: Current Biology, 2021, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.038

The balbyter ant Camponotus fulvopilosus combines several navigational strategies to support homing when foraging in the close vicinity of its nest

Author(s): Ayse Yilmaz, Yakir Gagnon, Marcus J. Byrne, James J. Foster, Emily Baird, Marie Dacke
Published in: Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2022, ISSN 1662-5145
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2022.914246

A unified platform to manage, share, and archive morphological and functional data in insect neuroscience

Author(s): Stanley Heinze; Basil el Jundi; Bente G Berg; Uwe Homberg; Randolf Menzel; Keram Pfeiffer; Ronja Hensgen; Frederick Zittrell; Marie Dacke; Eric Warrant; Gerit Pfuhl; Jürgen Rybak; Kevin Tedore
Published in: eLife, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.65376

A dung beetle that path integrates without the use of landmarks.

Author(s): Marie Dacke, Basil el Jundi, Yakir Gagnon, Ayse Yilmaz, Marcus Byrne & Emily Baird
Published in: Animal Cognition, Issue 23, 2020, Page(s) 1161-1175, ISSN 1435-9448
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-020-01426-8

Weighted cue integration for straight-line orientation

Author(s): Shahrzad Shaverdian, Elin Dirlik, Robert Mitchell, Claudia Tocco, Barbara Webb, Marie Dacke
Published in: iScience, 2022, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105207

Mechanisms of spectral orientation in a diurnal dung beetle

Author(s): Ayse Yilmaz, Basil el Jundi, Gregor Belušič, Marcus Byrne, Emily Baird, Marie Dacke
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0287

A model of cue integration as vector summation in the insect brain

Author(s): Mitchell R, Shaverdian S, Dacke M, Webb B
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Issue 290, 2023, Page(s) 20230767, ISSN 1471-2954
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0767

Compass Cue Integration and Its Relation to the Visual Ecology of Three Tribes of Ball-Rolling Dung Beetles

Author(s): Lana Khaldy, Claudia Tocco, Marcus Byrne, Marie Dacke
Published in: Insects, Issue 12/6, 2021, Page(s) 526, ISSN 2075-4450
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/insects12060526

The interplay of directional information provided by unpolarised and polarised light in the heading direction network of the diurnal dung beetle Kheper lamarcki

Author(s): Lana Khaldy, James Foster, Ayse Yilmaz, Gregor Belusic, Yakir Gagnon, Claudia Tocco, Marcus Byrne
Published in: The Journal of Experimental Biology, 2022, ISSN 0022-0949
Publisher: The Company of Biologists Ltd.
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.243734

Cold-induced anesthesia impairs path integration memory in dung beetles

Author(s): Ayse Yilmaz, Yakir Gagnon, Marcus Byrne, Emily Baird, Marie Dacke
Published in: Current Biology, 2021, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.10.067

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Keep it rolling: straight-line orientation in South African ball-rolling dung beetles

Author(s): Lana Khaldy
Published in: 2021, ISBN 978-91-8039-073-6
Publisher: Faculty of Science, Lund University