A trio of researchers, two with Philipps-University Marburg, the other with the University of Würzburg, has discovered how a sun compass works in the brain of the desert locust. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Frederick Zittrell, Keram Pfeiffer and Uwe Homberg describe studying neuronal reaction to natural and polarized light in locust brains.
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