Original publications and reviews (*):

2012
Wernet MF, Velez MM, Clark DA, Baumann-Klausener F, Brown JR, Klovstad M, Labhart T, Clandinin TR (2012) Genetic dissection reveals two separate retinal substrates for polarization vision in Drosophila. Curr Biol 22:12-20 1.3MB

2011
Kraft P, Evangelista C, Dacke M, Labhart T, Srinivasan MV (2011) Honeybee navigation: following routes using polarized light cues. Phil Trans R Soc B 366:703-708 348kB
Labhart T (2011) Preface (for special issue „ New directions in biological research on polarized light“). Phil Trans R Soc B 366:613-614 201kB

2010
Mueller KP, Labhart T (2010) Polarizing optics in a spider eye. J Comp Physiol A 196:335-348 1.0MB

2009
Labhart T, Baumann F, Bernard GD (2009) Specialized ommatidia of the polarization-sensitive dorsal rim area in the eye of monarch butterflies have non-functional tapeta. Cell Tissue Res 338:391-400 684kB

2008
Sakura S, Lambrinos D, Labhart T (2008) Polarized skylight Navigation in insects: model and electrophysiology of e-vector coding by neurons in the central complex. J Neurophysiol 99:667-682 872kB

2007
Henze MJ, Labhart T (2007) Haze, clouds and limited sky visibility: polarotactic orientation of crickets under diffcult stimulus conditions. J Exp Biol 210:3266-3276 872kB

2006
Bahadori R, Biehlmeyer O, Zeitz C, Labhart T, Makhankov YV, Forster U, Gesemann M, Berger W, Neuhauss, SCF (2006) Nyctalopin is essential for synaptic transmission in the cone dominated zebrafish retina. Eur J Neurosci 24:1664-1674 2.0MB
* Wehner R, Labhart T (2006) Polarisation vision. In: Invertebrate vision (Warrant E, Nilsson D-E, eds), pp 291-248, Oxford University Press
Stalleicken J, Labhart T, Mouritsen H (2006) Physiological characterization of the compound eye in the monarch butterflies with focus on the dorsal rim area. J Comp Physiol A 192:321-331 537kB

2005
Stalleicken J, Mukhida M, Labhart T, Wehner R, Frost B, Mouritsen H (2005) Do monarch butterflies use polarized skylight for migratory orientation? J Exp Biol 208: 2399-2408 1.5MB

2003
Wernet M F, Labhart T, Baumann F, Mazzoni E O, Pichaud F, Desplan C (2003) Homothorax switches function of Drosophila photoreceptors from color to polarized light sensors. Cell 115:267-279 996kB

2002
* Labhart T, Meyer E P (2002) Neural mechanisms in insect navigation: polarization compass and odometer. Curr Opin Neurobiol 12:707-714 620kB
Horvath G, Gal J, Labhart T, Wehner R (2002) Does reflection polarization by plants influence color perception in insects? Polarimetric measurements applied to a polarization-sensitive model retina of Papilio butterflies. J Exp Biol 205:3281-3298

2001
Labhart T, Petzold J, Helbling H (2001) Spatial integration in polarization-sensitive interneurones of crickets: a survey of evidence, mechanisms and benefits. J Exp Biol  204:2423-2430 1.4MB

2000
Labhart T (2000) Polarization-sensitive interneurons in the optic lobe of the desert ant Cataglyphis bicolor. Naturwiss  87:133-136. 264kB
Blum M, Labhart T (2000) Photoreceptor visual fields, ommatidial array, and receptor axon projections in the polarisation-sensitive dorsal rim area of the cricket compound eye. J Comp Physiol A 186:119-128 192kB
Lambrinos D, Möller R, Labhart T, Pfeifer R, Wehner R (2000) A mobile robot employing insect strategies for navigation. Robot Auton Syst 30:39-64 1.2MB

1999
Labhart T (1999) How polarization-sensitive interneurones of crickets see the polarization pattern of the sky: a field study with an opto-electronic model neurone. J Exp Biol  202:757-770. 480kB
* Labhart T, Meyer EP (1999) Detectors for polarized skylight in insects: a survey of ommatidial specializations in the dorsal rim area of the compound eye. Microsc Res Tech  47:368-379 1.1MB

1998
Möller R, Lambrinos D, Pfeifer R, Labhart T,  Wehner R (1998). Modeling ant navigation with an autonomous agent. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, pp.185-194

1997
Lambrinos D, Maris M, Kobayashi H, Labhart T, Pfeifer R,  Wehner R (1997). An autonomous agent navigating with a polarized light compass. Adaptive Behaviour 6:175-206

1996
Labhart T (1996) How polarization-sensitive interneurones of crickets perform at low degrees of polarization. J Exp Biol, 199:1467-1475 156kB

1995
Labhart T, Nilsson D E (1995): The dorsal eye of the dragonfly Sympetrum: specializations for prey detection against the blue sky. J Comp Physiol A 176: 437-453

1993
* Labhart T, Petzold J (1993) Processing of polarized light information in the visual system of crickets. In: Sensory Systems of Arthropods. eds Wiese K, Gribakin FG, Popov AV, Renninger G. Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser Verlag, pp 158-168
Meyer EP, Labhart T (1993) Morphological specializations of dorsal rim ommatidia in the compound eye of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). Cell Tissue Res 272:17-22.

1992
Labhart T, Keller K (1992) Fine structure and growth of the polarization-sensitive dorsal rim area in the compound eye of larval crickets. Naturwissenschaften 79:527-529.
Labhart T, Meyer E P, Schenker L (1992) Specialized ommatidia for polarization vision in the compound eye of cockchafers, Melolontha melolontha (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Cell Tissue Res 268:419-429

1990
von Philipsborn A, Labhart T (1990) A behavioural study of polarization vision in the fly, Musca domestica. J Comp Physiol A 167:737-743

1989
Herzmann D, Labhart T (1989) Spectral sensitivity and absolute threshold of polarization vision in crickets: a behavioral study. J Comp Physiol A 165:315-319.
Kaltenrieder M, Labhart T, Hess E (1989) Spectral sensitivity, absolute threshold and visual field of two tick species, Hyalomma dromedarii and Amblyomma variegatum. J Comp Physiol A 165:155-164

1988
Labhart T (1988) Polarization-opponent interneurons in the insect visual system. Nature 1988, 331:435-437
* Geiser F, Labhart T (1988) Der Tanz der Moleküle im Licht: Primärprozesse des Sehens. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 202:83

1987
Brunner D, Labhart T (1987) Behavioural evidence for polarization vision in crickets. Physiol Entomol 12:1-10
Nilsson D E, Labhart T, Meyer E P (1987) Photoreceptor design and optical properties affecting polarization sensitivity in ants and crickets. J Comp Physiol A 161:645-658.

1986
Labhart T (1986) The electrophysiology of photoreceptors in different eye regions of the desert ant, Cataglyphis bicolor. J Comp Physiol A 158:1-7.

1985
Aepli F, Labhart T, Meyer, E P (1985) Structural specializations of the cornea and retina at the dorsal rim of the compound eye in hymenopteran insects. Cell Tissue Res 239:19-24

1984
Labhart T, Hodel B, Valenzuela I (1984) The physiology of the cricket’s compound eye with particular reference to the anatomically specialized dorsal rim area. J Comp Physiol A  155:289-296

1981
Meyer E P, Labhart T (1981) Pore canals in the cornea of a functionally specialized area of the honey bee's compound eye. Cell Tissue Res 216:491-50.

1980
Labhart T (1980) Specialized photoreceptors at the dorsal rim of the honeybee's compound eye: polarizational and angular sensitivity. J Comp Physiol 141:19-30

1977
Labhart T (1977) Electrophysiological recordings from the lateral ocelli of Drosophila. Naturwissenschaften 64:99-100

1976
Labhart T, Wiersma C A G (1976) Habituation and inhibition in a class of visual interneurons of the rock lobster, Panulirus interruptus. Comp Biochem Physiol 55a:219-224

1974
Labhart T (1974) Behavioral analysis of light intensity discrimination and spectral sensitivity in the honey bee, Apis mellifera. J Comp Physiol 95:203-216

1973
Labhart T (1973) Verhaltensphysiologische Bestimmung der Intensitäts- und Spektral­empfindlichkeit der Honigbiene, Apis mellifera. Dissertation, Universiät Zürich

1972
Labhart T (1972) The discrimination of light intensities in the honey bee. In: Information Processing in the Visual Systems of Arthopods, Wehner R (ed.). Springer; Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, pp 115-119

1970
Wehner R, Labhart T (1970) Perception of the geomagnetic field in the fly Drosophila melanogaster. Experientia 26:967-968