Publications
2012
Moraru M, Egger B, Bao DB and Sprecher SG (2012). Analysis of cell identity, morphology, apoptosis and mitotic activity in a primary neural cell culture system in Drosophila. Neural Development 7:14 (in press).
Keene AC & Sprecher SG (2012). Seeing the light: Photobehavior in fruit fly larvae. Trends in Neurosciences 35: 104-110.
Sprecher SG (2012). "Drosophila neural development" In: eLS, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0000791.pub2 .
Tsachaki M & Sprecher SG (2012). Genetic and developmental mechanisms underlying the formation of the Drosophila compound eye. Developmental Dynamics 241:40-56.
2011
Von Essen AHJ, Pauls D, Thum AS & Sprecher SG (2011) Capacity of visual classical conditioning in Drosophila larvae. Behavioral Neuroscience 125: 921-929.
Vasiliauskas D, Mazzoni EO, Sprecher SG, Brodetskiy K, Johnston RJ, Lidder P, Vogt N, Celik A & Desplan C (2011). Feedback from Rhodopsin protein controls rhodopsin exclusion in Drosophila photoreceptors. Nature 479: 108-112.
Sprecher SG, Cardona A & Hartenstein V (2011). The Drosophila larval visual system: High-resolution analysis of a simple visual neuropil. Developmental Biology 358: 33-43.
Keene A, Mazzoni E, Zhen J, Younger M, Yamaguchi S, Blau J, Desplan C & Sprecher SG (2011). Distinct visual pathways mediate Drosophila larval light avoidance and circadian clock entrainment. J Neuroscience 31: 6527-6534. Use this link to download the supplemental data.
Diaz NN & Sprecher SG (2011). Photoreceptors: unconventional ways of seeing. Current Biology 21: R25-27.
2009
Sprecher SG (2009). "Developmental regulation of sensory receptor gene expression". in "Developmental Gene Expression Regulation" ed. Kurzfield NC, Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Sprecher SG & Desplan C (2009). "Development of the Drosophila eye, from precursor specification to terminal differentiation". In "Animal models for eye research" eds Tsonis PA & Wittbrodt J, Elsevier.
Sprecher SG (2009). "Evolution of the brain in Urbilateria". In "Encyclopedic Reference of Neuroscience" eds Binder MD, Hirsch CM & Nobutaka H, Springer.Sprecher S & Desplan C (2009). Plasticity of terminally differentiated neurons by switching rhodopsin expression. J Neurogenetics 23: S22.
2008
Sprecher SG and Desplan C (2008). Switch of rhodopsin expression in terminally differentiated Drosophila sensory neurons.
Nature 454: 33-537
2007
Sprecher SG, Pichaud F & Desplan C (2007). Adult and larval photoreceptors use different mechanisms to specify the same Rhodopsin fates
Genes and Development 21: 2182-2195.
Sprecher SG, Reichert H and Hartenstein V (2007). Gene expression patterns in primary neuronal clusters of the Drosophila embryonic brain. Gene Expression Patterns 7: 584-595.
2006
Sprecher SG, Urbach R, Technau GM, Rijli FM, Reichert H & Hirth F (2006). The columnar gene vnd is required for tritocerebral neuromere formation during embryonic brain development of Drosophila. Development 133: 4331-4339.
Sprecher SG & Hirth F (2006). The dorsoventral patterning gene msh is required for tritocerebral neuromere formation during embryonic brain development of Drosophila. Developmental Dynamics 235: 2920-2929.
Meier S, Sprecher SG, Reichert H & Hirth F (2006). Ventral veins lacking is required for specification of the tritocerebrum in embryonic brain development of Drosophila. Mechanisms of Development 123: 76-83.
2004
Sprecher SG, Müller M, Kammermeier L, Miller D, Kaufman TC, Reichert H & Hirth F (2004). Hox gene cross-regulatory interactions in the embryonic brain of Drosophila. Mechanisms of Development 121: 527-536.
2003
Sprecher SG, Galle S & Reichert H (2003). Substrate specificity and juvenile Faviid predominance of coral colonization at the Maldive Islands following the 1998 bleaching event. Coral Reefs 22: 130-132.
Sprecher SG. & Reichert H (2003). The urbilaterian brain: developmental insights into the evolutionary origin of the brain in insects and vertebrates. Arthropod Struct Dev, 32: 141-156.
