Fellows

John Douglass

e-mail: DouglassJ@si.edu

Address: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Apartado Postal 0843-03092
Panamá
República de Panamá

Telephone: +507-212-8027

FAX: +507-2128148

 

Publications

LinkPublications by John Douglass in STRI Bibliography

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Research Interests

Neuroethology and the evolution of nervous systems. Principles of biological information processing, sensory processing and animal communication, particularly with regard to invertebrate photoreception and vision.

Current Research

The capabilities and limitations of small brains, and the extent to which behavior, brain architecture or information processing strategies may be altered or constrained according to brain size, overall body size, and the metabolic demands of neural tissues.


Education and Degrees

B.A. in Biology, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA
Ph.D. in Zoology, Duke University, North Carolina, USA

Selected Bibliography

Douglass JK and Strausfeld, 2007. Diverse speed response properties of motion sensitive neurons in the fly's optic lobe. J Comp Physiol A 193:233-247

Douglass JK and Strausfeld NJ, 2005. Sign-conserving amacrine neurons in the fly's external plexiform layer. Visual Neuroscience 22:345-358.

Higgins CM, Douglass JK and Strausfeld NJ, 2004. The computational basis of an identified neuronal circuit for elementary motion detection in dipterous insects. Visual Neuroscience 21:567-586.

Douglass JK and Strausfeld NJ, 2003. Anatomical organization of retinotopic motion-sensitive pathways in the optic lobes of flies. Microscopy Research and Technique 62:132-150.

Douglass JK and NJ Strausfeld, 2003. Retinotopic pathways providing motion-selective information to the lobula from peripheral elementary motion-detecting circuits. J Comp Neurol 457:326-344.

Sinakevitch I, Douglass JK, Scholz G, Loesl R., and Strausfeld NJ, 2003. Conserved and divergent organization in the optic lobes of insects and isopods, with reference to other crustacean taxa. J Comp Neurol 467:150-172.

Douglass JK and Strausfeld NJ, 2001. Pathways in dipteran insects for early visual motion processing. In Zanker JM and Zeil J (Eds), Motion vision: Computational, neural and ecological constraints. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, pp 67-81.

Douglass JK and Strausfeld NJ, 2000. Optic flow representation in the optic lobes of Diptera: modeling the role of T5 directional tuning properties. J Comp Physiol A 186:783-797.

Douglass JK and Strausfeld NJ 2000. Optic flow representation in the optic lobes of Diptera: modeling innervation matrices onto collators and their evolutionary implications. J Comp Physiol A 186:799-811.

Douglass JK and Strausfeld NJ, 1998. Functionally and anatomically segregated visual pathways in the lobula complex of a calliphorid fly. J Comp Neurol 396:84-104.

Douglass JK and Wilkens LA, 1998. Directional selectivities of near-field filiform hair mechano¬receptors on the crayfish tailfan (Crustacea: Decapoda). J Comp Physiol A 183:23-34.

Douglass JK and Strausfeld NJ, 1996. Visual motion detection circuits in flies: Parallel direction- and non-direction sensitive pathways between the medulla and lobula plate. J Neurosci 16:4551-4562.

Douglass JK and Strausfeld NJ, 1995. Visual motion detection circuits in flies: Peripheral motion computation by identified small-field retinotopic neurons. J Neurosci 15: 5596-5611.

Douglass JK, Wilkens LA, Pantazelou E, and Moss F, 1993. Noise enhancement of information transfer in crayfish mechanoreceptors by stochastic resonance. Nature (London) 365:337 340.

King RB, Douglass JK, Baube CL and Phillips JB, 1993. Scotopic spectral sensitivity of the optomotor response in the green treefrog Hyla cinerea. J Exp Zool 267:40 46.

Douglass JK, Wilson JH and Forward RB Jr, 1992. A tidal rhythm in phototaxis of larval grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio). Mar Behav Physiol 19:159 173.

Douglass JK and Forward RB Jr, 1989. The ontogeny of facultative superposition optics in a shrimp eye: hatching through metamorphosis. Cell Tissue Res 258:289 300.