Publications of Alexander Borst

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2025
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Borst, A.: Differential temporal filtering in the fly optic lobe. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)
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Carrier, Y.; Rio, L. Q.; Formicola, N.; de Sousa-Xavier, V.; Tabet, M.; Chen, Y.-C. D.; Ali, A. H.; Wislez, M.; Orts, L.; Borst, A. et al.; Pinto-Teixeira, F.: Biased cell adhesion organizes the Drosophila visual motion integration circuit. Developmental Cell 60 (5), pp. 762 - 779.e7 (2025)
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Samara, E.; Schilling, T.; Ribeiro, I. M. A.; Haag, J.; Leonte, M.-B.; Borst, A.: Columnar cholinergic neurotransmission onto T5 cells of Drosophila. Current Biology 35 (6), pp. 1269 - 1284.e6 (2025)
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2024
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Borst, A.: Connectivity matrix seriation via relaxation. PLoS Computational Biology 20 (2), e1011904 (2024)
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Prech, S.; Groschner, L. N.; Borst, A.: An open platform for visual stimulation of insects. PLoS One 19 (4), e0301999 (2024)
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2023
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Ammer, G.; Serbe-Kamp, E.; Mauss, A.; Richter, F. G.; Fendl, S.; Borst, A.: Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila. Nature Neuroscience 26, pp. 1894 - 1905 (2023)
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Borst, A.; Groschner, L. N.: How flies see motion. Annual Review of Neuroscience 46, pp. 17 - 37 (2023)
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Borst, A.; Leibold, C.: Connecting connectomes to physiology. The Journal of Neuroscience 43 (20), pp. 3599 - 3610 (2023)
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Braun, A.; Borst, A.; Meier, M.: Disynaptic inhibition shapes tuning of OFF motion detectors in Drosophila. Current Biology 33 (11), pp. 2260 - 2269.e4 (2023)
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Mishra, A.; Serbe-Kamp, E.; Borst, A.; Haag, J.: Voltage to calcium transformation enhances direction selectivity in Drosophila T4 neurons. The Journal of Neuroscience 43 (14), pp. 2497 - 2514 (2023)
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Pirogova, N.; Borst, A.: Contrast normalization affects response time-course of visual interneurons. PLoS One 18 (6), e0285686 (2023)
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2022
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Ammer, G.; Viera, R. M.; Fendl, S.; Borst, A.: Anatomical distribution and functional roles of electrical synapses in Drosophila. Current Biology 32 (9), pp. 2022 - 2036.e4 (2022)
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Groschner, L. N.; Malis, J. G.; Zuidinga, B.; Borst, A.: A biophysical account of multiplication by a single neuron. Nature 603 (7899), pp. 119 - 123 (2022)
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Ribeiro, I. M. A.; Eßbauer, W.; Kutlesa, R.; Borst, A.: Spatial and temporal control of expression with light-gated LOV-LexA. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 12 (10), jkac178 (2022)
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2021
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Leonte, M.-B.; Leonhardt, A.; Borst, A.; Mauss, A. S.: Aerial course stabilization is impaired in motion-blind flies. The Journal of Experimental Biology 224 (14), jeb242219 (2021)
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Li, Y.; Chen, P.-J.; Lin, T.-Y.; Ting, C.-Y.; Muthuirulan, P.; Pursley, R.; Ilic, M.; Pirih, P.; Drews, M. S.; Menon, K. P. et al.; Zinn, K. G.; Pohida, T.; Borst, A.; Lee, C.-H.: Neural mechanism of spatio-chromatic opponency in the Drosophila amacrine neurons. Current Biology 31 (14), pp. 3040 - 3052 (2021)
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Wang, S.; Segev, I.; Borst, A.; Palmer, S.: Maximally efficient prediction in the early fly visual system may support evasive flight maneuvers. PLoS Computational Biology 17 (5), e1008965 (2021)
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2020
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Borst, A.; Drews, M.; Meier, M.: The neural network behind the eyes of a fly. Current Opinion in Physiology 16, pp. 33 - 42 (2020)
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Borst, A.; Haag, J.; Mauss, A. S.: How fly neurons compute the direction of visual motion. Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology 206, pp. 109 - 124 (2020)
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Drews, M. S.; Leonhardt, A.; Pirogova, N.; Richter, F. G.; Schuetzenberger, A.; Braun, L.; Serbe, E.; Borst, A.: Dynamic signal compression for robust motion vision in flies. Current Biology 30 (2), pp. 209 - 221.e8 (2020)
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Fendl, S.; Viera, R. M.; Borst, A.: Conditional protein tagging methods reveal highly specific subcellular distribution of ion channels in motion-sensing neurons. eLife 9, e62953 (2020)
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Hörmann, N.; Schilling, T.; Ali, A. H.; Serbe, E.; Mayer, C.; Borst, A.; Pujol-Marti, J.: A combinatorial code of transcription factors specifies subtypes of visual motion-sensing neurons in Drosophila. Development 147 (9), dev186296 (2020)
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Mauss, A. S.; Borst, A.: Optic flow-based course control in insects. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 60, pp. 21 - 27 (2020)
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Schuetzenberger, A.; Borst, A.: Seeing natural images through the eye of a fly with remote focusing two-photon microscopy. iScience 23 (6), 101170 (2020)
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2019
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Meier, M.; Borst, A.: Extreme compartmentalization in a Drosophila amacrine cell. Current Biology 29 (9), pp. 1545 - 1550.e2 (2019)
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Schilling, T.; Ali, A. H.; Leonhardt, A.; Borst, A.; Pujol-Marti, J.: Transcriptional control of morphological properties of direction-selective T4/T5 neurons in Drosophila. Development 146 (2), dev169763 (2019)
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Stanley, C. E.; Mauss, A. S.; Borst, A.; Cooper, R. L.: The effects of chloride flux on Drosophila heart rate. Methods and Protocols 2 (3), 73 (2019)
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2018
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Boergens, K. M.; Kapfer, C.; Helmstaedter, M.; Denk, W.; Borst, A.: Full reconstruction of large lobula plate tangential cells in Drosophila from a 3D EM dataset. PLoS One 13 (11), e0207828 (2018)
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Borst, A.: A biophysical mechanism for preferred direction enhancement in fly motion vision. PLoS Computational Biology 14 (6), e1006240 (2018)
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Busch, C.; Borst, A.; Mauss, A. S.: Bi-directional control of walking behavior by horizontal optic flow sensors. Current Biology 28 (24), pp. 4037 - 4045.e5 (2018)
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Dan, O.; Hopp, E.; Borst, A.; Segev, I.: Non-uniform weighting of local motion inputs underlies dendritic computation in the fly visual system. Scientific Reports 8, 5787 (2018)
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Ribeiro, I. M. A.; Drews, M.; Bahl, A.; Machacek, C.; Borst, A.; Dickson, B. J.: Visual projection neurons mediating directed courtship in Drosophila. Cell 174 (3), pp. 607 - 621.e18 (2018)
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Richter, F. G.; Fendl, S.; Haag, J.; Drews, M. S.; Borst, A.: Glutamate signaling in the fly visual system. iScience 7, pp. 85 - 95 (2018)
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2017
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Arenz, A.; Drews, M. S.; Richter, F. G.; Ammer, G.; Borst, A.: The temporal tuning of the Drosophila motion detectors is determined by the dynamics of their input elements. Current Biology 27 (7), pp. 929 - 944 (2017)
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Haag, J.; Mishra, A.; Borst, A.: A common directional tuning mechanism of Drosophila motion-sensing neurons in the ON and in the OFF pathway. eLife 6, e29044 (2017)
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Leonhardt, A.; Meier, M.; Serbe, E.; Eichner, H.; Borst, A.: Neural mechanisms underlying sensitivity to reverse-phi motion in the fly. PLoS One 12 (12), e0189019 (2017)
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Mauss, A. S.; Busch, C.; Borst, A.: Optogenetic neuronal silencing in Drosophila during visual processing. Scientific Reports 7, 13823 (2017)
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Mauss, A. S.; Vlasits, A.; Borst, A.; Feller, M.: Visual circuits for direction selectivity. Annual Review of Neuroscience 40, pp. 211 - 230 (2017)
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Pankova, K.; Borst, A.: Transgenic line for the identification of cholinergic release sites in Drosophila melanogaster. The Journal of Experimental Biology 220 (8), pp. 1405 - 1410 (2017)
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Wang, S.; Borst, A.; Zaslaysky, N.; Tishby, N.; Segev, I.: Efficient encoding of motion is mediated by gap junctions in the fly visual system. PLoS Computational Biology 13 (12), e1005846 (2017)
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2016
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Haag, J.; Arenz, A.; Serbe, E.; Gabbiani, F.; Borst, A.: Complementary mechanisms create direction selectivity in the fly. eLife 5, e17421 (2016)
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Leonhardt, A.; Ammer, G.; Meier, M.; Serbe, E.; Bahl, A.; Borst, A.: Asymmetry of Drosophila ON and OFF motion detectors enhances real-world velocity estimation. Nature Neuroscience 19 (5), pp. 706 - 715 (2016)
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Pankova, K.; Borst, A.: RNA-Seq transcriptome analysis of direction-selective T4/T5 neurons in Drosophila. PLoS One 11 (9), e0163986 (2016)
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Serbe, E.; Meier, M.; Leonhardt, A.; Borst, A.: Comprehensive characterization of the major presynaptic elements to the Drosophila OFF motion detector. Neuron 89 (4), pp. 829 - 841 (2016)
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2015
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Ammer, G.; Leonhardt, A.; Bahl, A.; Dickson, B. J.; Borst, A.: Functional specialization of neural input elements to the Drosophila ON motion detector. Current Biology 25 (17), pp. 2247 - 2253 (2015)
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Bahl, A.; Serbe, E.; Meier, M.; Ammer, G.; Borst, A.: Neural mechanisms for Drosophila contrast vision. Neuron 88 (6), pp. 1240 - 1252 (2015)
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Borst, A.; Helmstaedter, M.: Common circuit design in fly and mammalian motion vision. Nature Neuroscience 18 (8), pp. 1067 - 1076 (2015)
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Kauer, I.; Borst, A.; Haag, J.: Complementary motion tuning in frontal nerve motor neurons of the blowfly. Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology 201 (4), pp. 411 - 426 (2015)
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Mauss, A. S.; Pankova, K.; Arenz, A.; Nern, A.; Rubin, G. M.; Borst, A.: Neural circuit to integrate opposing motions in the visual field. Cell 162 (2), pp. 351 - 362 (2015)
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Schilling, T.; Borst, A.: Local motion detectors are required for the computation of expansion flow-fields. Biology Open 4 (9), pp. 1105 - 1108 (2015)
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