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Recent publications from the lab.

2026

Sayin, S., Vázquez, J. I., Kolyfetis, G. E., Lee, C. Y., Kaushik, P., Carlesso, D., Couzin-Fuchs, E., Foster, J. J., Sword, G. A., & Couzin, I. D. (2026). Warning body coloration gates robust collective marching in desert locusts. SSRN Preprint.

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.

2025

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.

2024

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.

2023

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.

2021

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.

2020

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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