Publications

Recent publications from the lab.

Narisetty, M., Sayin, S., Hertenberger, Y., Simpson, S. J., El Hady, A., & Couzin-Fuchs, E. (2025). Habitat structure and social behavior-the development of social phenotypes in the desert locust. bioRxiv, 2025-09.

Sayin, S., Couzin-Fuchs, E., Petelski, I., Günzel, Y., Salahshour, M., Lee, C. Y., … & Couzin, I. D. (2025).
The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts. Science, 387(6737), 995–1000.

Günzel, Y., Couzin-Fuchs, E., & Paoli, M. (2024).
CalciSeg: A versatile approach for unsupervised segmentation of calcium imaging data. NeuroImage, 120758.

Lehmann, J., Günzel, Y., Khosravian, M., Cassau, S., Kraus, S., Libnow, J. S., Chang, H., Hansson, B. S., Breer, H., Couzin-Fuchs, E., Fleischer, J., & Krieger, J. (2024).
SNMP1 is critical for sensitive detection of the desert locust aromatic courtship inhibition pheromone phenylacetonitrile. BMC Biology, 22(1), 150.

Petelski, I., Günzel, Y., Sayin, S., Kraus, S., & Couzin-Fuchs, E. (2024).
Synergistic olfactory processing for social plasticity in desert locusts. Nature Communications, 15(1), 5476.

Gorbonos, D., Oberhauser, F. B., Costello, L. L., Günzel, Y., Couzin-Fuchs, E., Koger, B., & Couzin, I. D. (2024). An effective hydrodynamic description of marching locusts. Physical Biology, 21(2), 026004.

Couzin, IDC. & Couzin-Fuchs E. (2023). The chemical ecology of locust cannibalism. Science 380 (6644), 454-455.

Hoffmann A. and Couzin-Fuchs E. (2023). Active smelling in the American cockroach. Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb-245337.

Günzel Y., Oberhauser F. and Couzin-Fuchs E. (2023). Information integration for nutritional decision-making in desert locusts, iScience 26 (4), 106388.

Couzin-Fuchs E. and Ayali A. (2021). The social brain of non-social insects.. Current Opinion in Insect Science 48, 1-7.

Günzel Y., McCollum J., Paoli M., Galizia C.G., Petelski I., and Couzin-Fuchs E. (2021). Social modulation of individual preferences in cockroaches. iScience, 101964.

Paoli M., Nishino H., Couzin-Fuchs E and Galizia G. (2020). Coding of odour and space in the hemimetabolous insect Periplaneta americana., Journal of Experimental Biology 223 (3): jeb218032.

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