Dr Swidbert R Ott
University of Leicester
Reader, Life Sciences
United Kingdom
My co-authors include
Dr Thelma A Lovick
Jeremy Niven
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My Publications
Regressions fit for purpose: Models of locust phase state must not conflate morphology ...
August 2017
From Molecules to Management: Mechanisms and Consequences of Locust Phase Polyphenism
January 2017
Acute and chronic gregarisation are associated with distinct DNA methylation fingerprin...
Scientific Reports
October 2016
Environmental Adaptation, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Associative Learning in Insects: T...
Integrative and Comparative Biology
August 2016
Brain composition in Heliconius butterflies, posteclosion growth and experience-depend...
The Journal of Comparative Neurology
April 2016
Pollen feeding proteomics: Salivary proteins of the passion flower butterfly, Heliconiu...
Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
August 2015
Acute and chronic gregarisation are associated with distinct DNA methylation fingerprin...
April 2015
Brain composition inGodyris zavaleta, a diurnal butterfly, Reflects an increased relian...
The Journal of Comparative Neurology
December 2014
Socially induced changes in serotonin neurones in desert locusts
Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences
December 2014
Rapid behavioural gregarization in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria entails syn...
Journal of Insect Physiology
June 2014
Phenotypic Transformation Affects Associative Learning in the Desert Locust
Current Biology
December 2013
Visually targeted reaching in horse-head grasshoppers
Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences
July 2012
A long-latency aversive learning mechanism enables locusts to avoid odours associated w...
Journal of Experimental Biology
April 2012
Critical role for protein kinase A in the acquisition of gregarious behavior in the des...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
December 2011
Microarray-Based Transcriptomic Analysis of Differences between Long-Term Gregarious an...
PLoS ONE
November 2011
Associative olfactory learning in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria
Journal of Experimental Biology
July 2011
Epigenetic remodelling of brain, body and behaviour during phase change in locusts
Neural Systems & Circuits
January 2011
Motor neurone responses during a postural reflex in solitarious and gregarious desert l...
Journal of Insect Physiology
August 2010
Gregarious desert locusts have substantially larger brains with altered proportions com...
Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences
May 2010
Three-dimensional distribution of NO sources in a primary mechanosensory integration ce...
The Journal of Comparative Neurology
April 2010
Confocal microscopy in large insect brains: Zinc–formaldehyde fixation improves synapsi...
Journal of Neuroscience Methods
July 2008
Nitric oxide synthase in crayfish walking leg ganglia: Segmental differences in chemo-t...
The Journal of Comparative Neurology
January 2007
Modeling Cooperative Volume Signaling in a Plexus of Nitric Oxide Synthase-Expressing N...
Journal of Neuroscience
July 2005
Timed and Targeted Differential Regulation of Nitric Oxide Synthase (NOS) and Anti-NOS ...
Journal of Neuroscience
February 2005
Localization of nitric oxide synthase in the central complex and surrounding midbrain n...
The Journal of Comparative Neurology
January 2005
An evolutionarily conserved mechanism for sensitization of soluble guanylyl cyclase rev...
European Journal of Neuroscience
September 2004
Serial hearing organs in the atympanate grasshopperBullacris membracioides(Orthoptera, ...
The Journal of Comparative Neurology
September 2003
New Techniques for Whole-mount NADPH-diaphorase Histochemistry Demonstrated in Insect G...
Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry
April 2003
Contralateral inhibition as a sensory bias: the neural basis for a female preference in...
European Journal of Neuroscience
May 2002
Sensory afferents and motor neurons as targets for nitric oxide in the locust
The Journal of Comparative Neurology
July 2000
NADPH diaphorase histochemistry in the thoracic ganglia of locusts, crickets, and cockr...
The Journal of Comparative Neurology
August 1999
Nitric oxide synthase in the thoracic ganglia of the locust: Distribution in the neurop...
The Journal of Comparative Neurology
June 1998
Acquisition of high‐resolution digital images in video microscopy: Automated image mosa...
Microscopy Research and Technique
August 1997