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