Publications

  • Stahl, A., Cook, T. A. and Buschbeck, E. K. (2018). Transcription factors cut and pros play an important role in the development of diving beetle larval eyes. Developmental Dynamics in preparation.
  • Stowasser, A., Owens, M. and Buschbeck, E. K. (2017). Giving invertebrates an eye exam: An ophthalmoscope that utilizes the autofluorescence of photoreceptors. Journal of Experimental Biology; in press.
  • Morehouose, N.I., Buschbeck, E.K., Zurek, D.B., Steck, M. and Porter, M. (2017). Molecular Evolution of Spider Vision: New Opportunities, Familiar Players. The Biological Bulletin 233 (2): available online.
  • Stahl, A., Baucom R.S., T.A. Cook, and E. K. Buschbeck. (2017) A complex lens for a complex eye. Integrative and Comparative Biology. available online, doi: 10.1007/s00427-017-0582-7.
  • Stahl, A. Charlton-Perkins, M. Buschbeck, EK and Tiffany Cook T.A. (2017) The cuticular nature of corneal lenses in Drosophila melanogaster. Development Genes and Evolution; 227(4), 271-278, doi:10.1007/s00427-017-0582-7.
  • Charlton-Perkins M., Sendler, E.D, Buschbeck E.K. and Cook T. A. (2017) Müller glia-like cells are a major constituent of the insect compound eye. PLOS Genetics. 3(5) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006782; recommended in F1000Prime as being of special significance in its field.
  • James, M. Nandamuri, SP Stahl, A and Buschbeck, E.K. (2016). The unusual eyes of Xenos peckii (Strepsiptera: Xenidae) have green- and UV-sensitive photoreceptors. Journal of Experimental Biology, 219, 3866-3874 DOI:10.1242/jeb.148361. Highlighted by an “Inside JEB” article by Kathryn Knight and chosen as “Editors Choice” article of the December issue.
  • Stecher, N., Stowasser, A., Stahl, A. and Buschbeck, E. K. (2016). Embryonic development of the larval eyes of the Sunburst Diving Beetle, Thermonectus marmoratus (Insecta: Dytiscidae); a morphological study. Evolution and Development, 18(4): 216-228. DOI: 10.1111/ede.12192.
  • Werner, S. and Buschbeck E.K. (2015) Rapid and step-wise eye growth in molting diving beetle larvae. The Journal of Comparative Physiology. 201(11):1091-1102. DOI 10.1007/s00359-015-1040-5.  This article was chosen by the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Prof. Dr. Friedrich G. Barth, as highlight article and was featured as top story in Science 360, Nature World News, Sciece World Report, Science Codex and WVXUradio.
  • Stowasser, A., Mohr, S., Buschbeck, E.K., and Vilinsky, I., (2015) Electrophysiology meets ecology: investigating how vision is tuned to the life style of an animal using electroretinography. The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 13(3):A234-43.
  • Stowasser, A and Buschbeck E. K. (2014) How aquatic water-beetle larvae with small chambered eyes overcome challenges of hunting under water. The Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 200:911–922.
  •             This article was chosen by the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Prof. Dr. Friedrich G. Barth, as the highlight article of November
  • Buschbeck, E. K. (2014). Escaping compound eye ancestry: the evolution of single-chamber eyes in holometabolous larvae. Journal of Experimental Biology, 217, 2818-2824.
  • Stowasser, A. and Buschbeck, E. K. (2014). Multitasking in an eye: How the unusual organization of the principal larval eyes of Thermonectus marmoratus allows for far and near vision and might aid in depth perception. Journal of Experimental Biology, 217:2509-2516.
  • Bland, K., Revetta, N., Stowasser, A. and Buschbeck, E. K. (2014). Unilateral range finding in diving beetle larvae. Journal of Experimental Biology. 217:327-330. Featured in inside JEB.
  • Saima Riazuddin, Inna A. Belyantseva, Arnaud Giese, Kwanghyuk Lee, Artur A. Indzhykulian, Sri Pratima Nandamuri, Rizwan Yousaf, Ghanshyam P. Sinha, Sue Lee, David Terrell, Rashmi S. Hegde, Rana A. Ali, Saima Anwar, Paula B. Andrade-Elizondo, Asli Sirmaci, Leslie V. Parise, Sulman Basit, Abdul Wali, Muhammad Ayub, Muhammad Ansar, Wasim Ahmad, Shaheen N. Khan, Javed Akram, Mustafa Tekin, Sheikh Riazuddin, Tiffany Cook, Elke K. Buschbeck, Gregory I. Frolenkov, Suzanne M. Leal, Thomas B. Friedman, Zubair M. Ahmed (2012) ­­Mutations in CIB2, a calcium and integrin binding protein, cause Usher syndrome type 1J and nonsyndromic deafness DFNB48. Nature Genetics. 44: 1265-1271, Published online 30 September 2012; doi:10.1038/ng.2426.
  • Annette Stowasser and Elke K. Buschbeck (2012) First electrophysiological evidence for polarization sensitivity in camera like eyes of a predacious aquatic insect larva, Thermonectus marmoratus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Journal of Experimental Biology. 215:3577-3586.
  • Srdjan Maksimovic, John F. Layne, Elke K. Buschbeck (2011). Spectral sensitivity of the principal eyes of sunburst diving beetle, Thermonectus marmoratus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), larvae. The Journal of Experimental Biology 214, 3524-3531.
  • Stowasser, A, A. Rapaport, JE. Layne, RC. Morgan, and EK Buschbeck (2010) Biological bifocal lenses with image separation. Current Biology, 20(16):1482-1486.            Featured in Science Magazine’s “Editor’s Choice”.
  • Stecher N. Morgan RC EK. Buschbeck (2010) Retinal ultrastructure in the principle eyes may mediate polarization sensitivity in the first instar larva of the diving beetle Thermonectus marmoratus (Insecta: Dytiscidae). Zoomorphology, 129(3): 141-152; DOI 10.1007/s00435-010-0107-7
  • Buschbeck EK (2009) The Bizarre Visual System of Diving Beetle Larvae: From Asymmetric Spherical Eyes to Tubular Eyes and Scanning Behavior. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 73:306. Published meeting abstract.
  • Maksimovic S, T. Cook and EK Buschbeck (2009) Spatial distribution of opsin encoding mRNAs within fourteen retinas (six eyes and an eye patch) of the Thermonectus marmoratus larval visual system (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). The Journal of Experimental Biology, 212:3781-3794.
  • Buschbeck EK (2009) Animal Eyes. In: Bruce Goldstein (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Perception. Sage Publications, Inc.
  • Buschbeck EK and M Hauser (2009) On the way to camera eyes: the visual system of male scale insects. Naturwissenschaften, 97(3):365-374. (DOI 10.1007/s00114-008-0484-7).
  • Buschbeck EK and M Friedrich (2008) Evolution of insect eyes: tales of ancient heritage, deconstruction, reconstruction, remodeling, and recycling. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 1:448-462. (DOI 10.1007/s12052-008-0086-z)
  • Buschbeck EK (2008) Anatomical and Functional Diversity of Animal Eyes. In: Panagiotis A. Tsonis (Ed.) Animal Models in Eye Research. Academic Press.
  • Sbita SJ, RC Morgan and EK Buschbeck (2007) Eye and optic lobe metamorphosis in the sunburst diving beetle, Thermonectus marmoratus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Arthropod Structure and Development, 36:449-462.
  • Maksimovic S, JE Layne and EK Buschbeck (2007) Behavioral evidence for within-eyelet resolution in twisted-winged insects (Strepsiptera). The Journal of Experimental Biology, 210: 2819-2828
  • Buschbeck EK., SJ Sbita and RC Morgan (2007) Scanning behavior by larvae of the predacious diving beetle, Thermonectus marmoratus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) enlarges visual field prior to prey capture Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 193:973–982.
  • Mandapaka, K., RC. Morgan and EK. Buschbeck (2006) Twenty eight retinas but only twelve eyes; an anatomical analysis of the larval visual system of the diving beetle Thermonectus marmoratus (Dytiscidae; Coleoptera). The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 497:166-181.
  • Spencer Johnston, David Grimaldi, Elke Bushbeck, and Jeyaraney Kathirithamby (2005) Proposal for the Sequencing of a New Target Genome: White Paper for a Strepsipteran Genome Project. Note that this is not a peer-reviewed publication
  • Buschbeck, EK. (2005) The compound lens eye of Strepsiptera: morphological development of larvae and pupae. Arthropod Structure and Development. 34(3):315-326.
  • Buschbeck, E.K. and RR. Hoy (2005) The development of a long, coiled optic nerve in the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodiopsis whitei. Cell and Tissue Research. 321(3):491-504.
  •             (This project originated at Cornell University, but a substantial amount of data was acquired at the University of Cincinnati).
  • Buschbeck, EK., B. Ehmer and RR. Hoy (2003) The unusual visual system of the Strepsiptera: External eye and neuropils. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 189(8):617-630.
  • Buschbeck, EK., JL. Roosevelt and RR. Hoy (2001) Eye stalks or no eye stalks: a structural comparison of pupal development in the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtidiopsis and in Drosophila. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 433:486-498.
  • Buschbeck, EK. (2000) Neurobiological constraints and fly systematics: how different types of neural characters can contribute to a higher level dipteran phylogeny. Evolution. 54:888-898.
  • Buschbeck, EK., B. Ehmer and RR. Hoy (1999) Chunk versus point sampling: visual imaging in a small insect. Science 286:1178-1180.
  • Buschbeck, EK., and RR. Hoy (1998) Visual system of the Stalk-Eyed Fly, Cyrtodiopsis quinqueguttata (Diopsidae, Diptera). An anatomical investigation of unusual eyes. Journal of Neurobiology 37(3):449-468.
  • Buschbeck, EK., and NJ. Strausfeld (1997) The Relevance of Neural Architecture to Visual Performance: Phylogenetic Conservation and Variation in Dipteran Visual Systems. The Journal of Comparative Neurology 383:282-304.
  • Buschbeck, EK., and NJ. Strausfeld (1996) Visual motion-detection circuits in flies: small-field retintopic elements responding to motion are evolutionarily conserved across taxa. The Journal of Neuroscience 16:4563-4578.
  • Strausfeld NJ, EK Buschbeck and RS Gomez (1995); The arthropod Mushroom Body: it’s functional roles, evolutionary enigmas and mistaken identities. In: O. Breidbach and W. Kutsch (eds.) The nervous systems of invertebrates: an evolutionary and comparative approach. Birkhaeuser Verlag Basel / Switzerland.