Elke K. Buschbeck Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Arizona

Non Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Buschbeck EK.(1994) Conservation of “magnocellular” neurons of the dipteran optomotor pathway: evolutionary and functional implications.  Thesis; University of Arizona.

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.

Buschbeck EK (1996) Neural pathways underlying visually guided flight control in flies (Diptera): evolutionary implications and phylogenetic consequences of cellular architecture. Dissertation, University of Arizona

J. 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.

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

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.

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 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., B. Ehmer and RR. Hoy (1999) Chunk versus point sampling: visual imaging in a small insect. Science 286:1178-1180.

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., J. L. Roosevelt and R. R. 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., B. Ehmer and R. R. Hoy (2003) The unusual visual system of the Strepsiptera: External eye and neuropils. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 189(8): 617 - 630.

Buschbeck, E.K. and R.R. 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.

Buschbeck, EK. (2005) The compound lens eye of Strepsiptera: morphological development of larvae and pupae. Arthropod Structure and Development. 34(3):315-326.

Mandapaka, K., R. C. Morgan and E. K. 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, in press.