Selected publications

2019

Schulte P, Zeil J, Stürzl W (2019) An Insect-Inspired Model for Acquiring Views for Homing. Biological Cybernetics (in press)

2018

• Ribi W, Zeil J (2018) Diversity and common themes in the organization of insect ocelli. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 204: 505-517
• Jayatilaka P, Murray T, Narendra A, Zeil J (2018) The choreography of learning walks in the Australian jack jumper ant Myrmecia croslandi. Journal of Experimental Biology 221: jeb185306.
• Collett TS, Zeil J (2018) Insect learning flights and walks. Current Biology 28:R984-R988.
• Zeil J (2018) Orientation, Navigation, and Searching. Pethybridge H (ed) Encyclopedia of Ecology, Second Edition, Elsevier (in press).
• Zeil J, Hemmi JM (2018) Crabs and their visual world. Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Second Edition. Elsevier (in press).
• Zahedi MS, Zeil J (2018) Fractal dimension and the navigational information provided by natural scenes. PLoS ONE 13(5):e0196227.

2017

• Ogawa Y, Ribi W, Zeil J, Hemmi JM (2017) Regional differences in the preferred e-vector orientation of honeybee ocellar photoreceptors. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 1701-1708.
• Ramirez-Esquivel F, Fischer N, Zeil J, Narendra A (2017) The sensory arrays of the ant, Temnothorax rugatulus. Arthopod Structure & Development 46: 552-563.
• Ribi W, Zeil J (2017) Three-dimensional visualization of ocellar interneurons of the Orchid bee Euglossa imperialis using micro X-ray Computed Tomography. Journal of Comparative Neurology 525:3581–3595.
• Murray T, Zeil J, Magrath RD (2017) An avian wing whistle acts as an alarm by honestly signalling flight performance. Current Biology 27: 3520–3525.
• Murray T, Zeil J (2017) Quantifying navigational information: The catchment volumes of panoramic snapshots in outdoor scenes. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0187226.
• Schwarz S, Mangan M, Zeil J, Webb B, Wystrach A (2017) How ants use vision when homing backward. Current Biology 27: 401–407.

2016

• Narendra A, Greiner B, Ribi AW, Zeil J (2016) Light and dark adaptation mechanisms in the compound eyes of Myrmecia ants that occupy discrete temporal niches. Journal of Experimental Biology 219: 2435–2442.
• Stürzl W, Zeil J, Boeddeker N, Hemmi JM (2016) How wasps acquire and use views for homing. Current Biology  26, 470–482.
• Raderschall CA, Narendra A, Zeil J (2016) Head roll stabilisation in the nocturnal bull ant Myrmecia pyriformis: Implications for visual navigation. Journal of Experimental Biology  219: 1449-1457.

2015

• White T, Zeil J, Kemp D (2015) Signal design and courtship presentation coincide for highly biased delivery of an iridescent butterfly mating signal. Evolution 69(1): 14-25.
• Ogawa Y, Falkowski M, Narendra A, Zeil J, Hemmi JM (2015) Three spectrally distinct photoreceptors in diurnal and nocturnal Australian ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20150673
• Stürzl W, Mair E, Grixa I, Narendra A, Zeil J (2015) Three-dimensional models of natural environments and the mapping of navigational information. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 201: 563-584.
• Ribi WA, Zeil J (2015) The visual system of the Australian 'Redeye' Cicada (Psaltoda moerens). Arthropod Structure and Development 44: 574-586

2014

• Jayatilaka P, Raderschall CA, Narendra A, Zeil J (2014) Individual foraging patterns of the jack jumper antMyrmecia croslandi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 19: 75-83.
• Alkaladi A, Zeil J (2014) The Functional Anatomy of the Fiddler Crab Compound Eye (Uca vomeris: Ocypodidae, Brachyura, Decapoda). Journal of Comparative Neurology 522: 1264–1283.
• Zeil J, Narendra A, Stürzl W (2014) Looking and Homing: How displaced ants decide where to go. Philosophical Transactions B 20130034. 
• Zeil J, Hemmi JM (2014) Path Integration, Vision and Decision-making in Fiddler Crabs. In: Derby CD, Thiel M (eds) Crustacean Nervous Systems and their Control of Behavior. Vol 3 of The Natural History of Crustaceans (ten-volume series, editor-in-chief, M. Thiel). Oxford Univ. Press, New York, pp 484-508
• Zeil J, Ribi W, Narendra A (2014) Polarisation vision in ants, bees and wasps. In: Polarized Light and Polarization Vision in Animal Sciences. Gábor Horváth (Editor). Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, New York. pp. 41-60.
• Samet N, Zeil J, Mair E, Boeddeker N, Stürzl W (2014) Ground-nesting insects could use visual tracking for monitoring nest position during learning flights.In: From Animals to Animats 13. del Pobil AP, Chinellato E, Martínez-Martín E, Hallam J, Cervera E, Morales A  (eds). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 8575: 108-120. 
• Ramirez-Esquivel F, Narendra A, Zeil J (2014) The antennal sensory array of the nocturnal bull ant Myrmecia pyriformis. Arthropod Structure & Development 43 (6): 543–558 DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2014.07.004
• Cheung A, Collett M, Collett TS, Dewar A, Dyer FC, Graham P, Mangan M, Narendra A, Philippides A, Stürzl W, Webb B, Wystrach A, Zeil J (2014). Still no convincing evidence for cognitive map use by honeybees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA doi/10.1073/pnas.1413581111.
• Zeil J (2014) Nachruf auf Dezsö Varjú. Zoologie 2014, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, 71-76 (Obituary in German).

2013

• Alkaladi A, How M, Zeil J (2013) Systematic variations in microvilli banding patterns along fiddler crab rhabdoms. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 199: 99-113.
• Violett S, Zeil J (2013) Feed-forward and visual feed-back control of head roll orientation in wasps (Polistes humilis, Vespidae, Hymenoptera). Journal of Experimental Biology 216, 1280-1291.
• Narendra A, Gourmaud S, Zeil J (2013) Mapping the navigational knowledge of individually foraging ants, Myrmecia croslandi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 280: 20130683.
• Reid SF, Narendra A, Taylor RW, Zeil J (2013) Foraging ecology of the night-active bull ant Myrmecia pyriformis. Australian Journal of Zoology 61: 170-177.

2012

• Zeil J (2012) Visual Homing – An Insect Perspective. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 22:285–293.

2011

• Narendra A, Reid SF, Greiner B, Peters RA, Hemmi JM, Ribi W, Zeil J (2011) Caste-specific visual adaptations to distinct daily activity schedules in Australian Myrmecia ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 278: 1141-1149.
• Schwarz S, Narendra A, Zeil J (2011) The properties of the visual system in the Australian desert antMelophorus bagoti. Arthropod Structure & Development 40: 128-134.
• Reid SF, Narendra A, Hemmi JM, Zeil J (2011) Polarised skylight and the landmark panorama provide night active bull ants with compass information during route following. Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 363-370
• Smolka J, Zeil J, Hemmi JM (2011) Natural visual cues eliciting predator avoidance in fiddler crabs.Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 278: 3584-3592.
• Jayatilaka P, Narendra A, Reid SF, Cooper P, Zeil J (2011) Different effects of temperature on the foraging activity schedules in sympatric Myrmecia ants. Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 2730-2738
• Ribi W, Warrant E, Zeil J (2011) The organization of honeybee ocelli: Regional specializations and rhabdom arrangements. Arthropod Structure & Development 40: 509-520.

All publications

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