Simon G. Sprecher

3.2k total citations
87 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Simon G. Sprecher is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon G. Sprecher has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 43 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Simon G. Sprecher's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (60 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (17 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (15 papers). Simon G. Sprecher is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (60 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (17 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (15 papers). Simon G. Sprecher collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Spain. Simon G. Sprecher's co-authors include Claude Desplan, Heinrich Reichert, Volker Hartenstein, Rémy Bruggmann, Alex C. Keene, Pedro Martı́nez, Lena van Giesen, Maria Tsachaki, Gernot Maier and Albert Cardona and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Simon G. Sprecher

85 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers

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Marion Silies Germany

Thomas Riemensperger Germany

Carsten Duch Germany

W. Daniel Tracey United States

Suewei Lin Taiwan

Igor Siwanowicz United States

Quan Yuan United States

Alfredo Ghezzi United States

J. Steven de Belle United States

Haojiang Luan United States

Marion Silies Germany

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Fritsch, Cornelia, et al.. (2025). Food hardness preference reveals multisensory contributions of fly larval gustatory organs in behaviour and physiology. PLoS Biology. 23(1). e3002730–e3002730. 2 indexed citations

Morrison, Carolyn A., Alireza Khodadadi‐Jamayran, Ashley Jordan, et al.. (2024). Synergistic activation by Glass and Pointed promotes neuronal identity in the Drosophila eye disc. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7091–7091.

Martı́nez, Pedro, et al.. (2023). Associative learning in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(13). e2220685120–e2220685120. 13 indexed citations

Lischer, Heidi E. L., et al.. (2023). Molecular characterization of cell types in the squid Loligo vulgaris. eLife. 12. 15 indexed citations

Fritsch, Cornelia, et al.. (2021). Homothorax controls a binary Rhodopsin switch in Drosophila ocelli. PLoS Genetics. 17(7). e1009460–e1009460. 2 indexed citations

Lone, Shahnaz Rahman, et al.. (2021). Dopamine, sleep, and neuronal excitability modulate amyloid-β–mediated forgetting in Drosophila. PLoS Biology. 19(10). e3001412–e3001412. 8 indexed citations

Ladurner, Peter, et al.. (2020). Acoel Single-Cell Transcriptomics: Cell Type Analysis of a Deep Branching Bilaterian. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(5). 1888–1904. 14 indexed citations

Sprecher, Simon G.. (2020). Brain development : methods and protocols. Humana Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

Fritsch, Cornelia, S. C. P. Almeida, Michael Frochaux, et al.. (2019). Multilevel regulation of the glass locus during Drosophila eye development. PLoS Genetics. 15(7). e1008269–e1008269. 4 indexed citations

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Maier, Gernot, et al.. (2019). Single cell transcriptome atlas of the Drosophila larval brain. eLife. 8. 93 indexed citations

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Hartenstein, Volker, et al.. (2019). Serial electron microscopic reconstruction of the drosophila larval eye: Photoreceptors with a rudimentary rhabdomere of microvillar-like processes. Developmental Biology. 453(1). 56–67. 1 indexed citations

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Bruggmann, Rémy, et al.. (2018). Regulators of Long-Term Memory Revealed by Mushroom Body-Specific Gene Expression Profiling in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 209(4). 1167–1181. 19 indexed citations

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Fritsch, Cornelia, et al.. (2018). Patterning mechanisms diversify neuroepithelial domains in the Drosophila optic placode. PLoS Genetics. 14(4). e1007353–e1007353. 6 indexed citations

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Sprecher, Simon G., et al.. (2018). Two Pairs of Drosophila Central Brain Neurons Mediate Larval Navigational Strategies Based on Temporal Light Information Processing. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 12. 305–305. 6 indexed citations

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Giesen, Lena van, Luis Hernandez-Nunez, Martino Colombo, et al.. (2016). Multimodal stimulus coding by a gustatory sensory neuron in Drosophila larvae. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10687–10687. 30 indexed citations

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Sprecher, Simon G., et al.. (2015). Characterization of tailless functions during Drosophila optic lobe formation. Developmental Biology. 405(2). 202–213. 10 indexed citations

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Kane, Elizabeth A., Marc Gershow, Bruno Afonso, et al.. (2013). Sensorimotor structure of Drosophila larva phototaxis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(40). E3868–77. 92 indexed citations

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Rohwedder, Astrid, Anthi A. Apostolopoulou, Annekathrin Widmann, et al.. (2012). The Serotonergic Central Nervous System of the Drosophila Larva: Anatomy and Behavioral Function. PLoS ONE. 7(10). e47518–e47518. 61 indexed citations

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Vasiliauskas, Daniel, Esteban O. Mazzoni, Simon G. Sprecher, et al.. (2011). Feedback from rhodopsin controls rhodopsin exclusion in Drosophila photoreceptors. Nature. 479(7371). 108–112. 40 indexed citations

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Sprecher, Simon G., Martin Müller, Lars Kammermeier, et al.. (2004). Hox gene cross-regulatory interactions in the embryonic brain of Drosophila. Mechanisms of Development. 121(6). 527–536. 19 indexed citations

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