Male (left) and female (right) moths of the European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis. The caterpillars of this pest mainly attack the stems of maize plants.

Publications of Silke Sachse

Journal Article (67)

2025
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Keesey, I.; Doll, G.; Das Chakraborty, S.; Baschwitz, A.; Lemoine, M.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Svatoš, A.; Sachse, S.; Knaden, M.; Hansson, B. S.: Neuroecology of alcohol risk and reward: Methanol boosts pheromones and courtship success in Drosophila melanogaster. Science Advances 11 (14), eadi9683 (2025)
2024
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Dzialo, M. C.; Arumugam, S.; Piampongsant, S.; Cool, L.; Vanderaa, C.; Herrera-Malaver, B.; Opsomer, T.; Dehaen, W.; Wenseleers, T.; Roncoroni, M. et al.; Alawamleh, A.; Wäckers, F.; Lievens, B.; Hansson, B. S.; Voordeckers, K.; Sachse, S.; Verstrepen, K. J.: Drosophila suzukii and Drosophila melanogaster prefer distinct microbial and plant aroma compounds in a complex fermented matrix. iScience 25 (11), 111141 (2024)
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Jiang, X.; Dimitriou, E.; Grabe, V.; Sun, R.; Chang, H.; Zhang, Y.; Gershenzon, J.; Rybak, J.; Hansson, B. S.; Sachse, S.: Ring-shaped odor coding in the antennal lobe of migratory locusts. Cell 187 (15), pp. 13973 - 3991.e24 (2024)
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Schuh, E.; Cassau, S.; Ismaieel, A. R.; Stieber, R.; Krieger, J.; Hansson, B. S.; Sachse, S.; Bisch-Knaden, S.: Females smell differently: characteristics and significance of the most common olfactory sensilla of female silkmoths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291 (2015), 0232578 (2024)
2023
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Anton, S.; Sachse, S.; Huber, R.: Editorial: Insights in invertebrate physiology 2021. Frontiers in Physiology 14, 1157932 (2023)
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Bandyopadhyay, P.; Sachse, S.: Mixing things up! — how odor blends are processed in Drosophila. Current Opinion in Insect Science 59, 101099 (2023)
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Depetris-Chauvin, A.; Galagovsky, D.; Keesey, I. W.; Hansson, B. S.; Sachse, S.; Knaden, M.: Evolution at multiple processing levels underlies odor-guided behavior in the genus Drosophila. Current Biology 33 (22), pp. 4771 - 4785.e7 (2023)
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Fabian, B.; Sachse, S.: Experience-dependent plasticity in the olfactory system of Drosophila melanogaster and other insects. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 17, 1130091 (2023)
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Fischer, M. L.; Fabian, B.; Pauchet, Y.; Wielsch, N.; Sachse, S.; Vilcinskas, A.; Vogel, H.: An assassin’s secret: multifunctional cytotoxic compounds in the predation venom of the assassin bug Psytalla horrida (Reduviidae, Hemiptera). Toxins 15 (4), 302 (2023)
2022
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Das Chakraborty, S.; Chang, H.; Hansson, B. S.; Sachse, S.: Higher-order olfactory neurons in the lateral horn support odor valence and odor identity coding in Drosophila. eLife 11, e74637 (2022)
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Knaden, M.; Anderson, P.; Andersson, M. N.; Hill, S. R.; Sachse, S.; Sandgren, M.; Stensmyr, M. C.; Löfstedt, C.; Ignell, R.; Hansson, B. S.: Human impacts on insect chemical communication in the Anthropocene. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10, 791345 (2022)
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Rihani, K.; Sachse, S.: Shedding light on inter-individual variability of olfactory circuits in Drosophila. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 16, 835680 (2022)
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Thiagarajan, D.; Eberl, F.; Veit, D.; Hansson, B. S.; Knaden, M.; Sachse, S.: Aversive bimodal associations differently impact visual and olfactory memory performance in Drosophila. iScience 25, 105485 (2022)
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Thiagarajan, D.; Sachse, S.: Multimodal information processing and associative learning in the insect brain. Insects 13 (4), 332 (2022)
2021
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Campetella, F.; Ignell, R.; Beutel, R.; Hansson, B. S.; Sachse, S.: Comparative dissection of the peripheral olfactory system of the Chagas disease vectors Rhodnius prolixus and Rhodnius brethesi. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 15 (4), e0009098 (2021)
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Das Chakraborty, S.; Sachse, S.: Olfactory processing in the lateral horn of Drosophila. Cell and Tissue Research 383, pp. 113 - 123 (2021)
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Sachse, S.; Manzini, I.: Editorial for the special issue "Olfactory coding and circuitries". Cell and Tissue Research 383, pp. 1 - 6 (2021)
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Vulpe, A.; Kim, H. S.; Ballou, S.; Wu, S.-T.; Grabe, V.; Gonzales, C. N.; Sachse, S.; Jeanne, J. M.; Su, C.-Y.; Menuz, K.: An ammonium transporter is a non-canonical olfactory receptor for ammonia. Current Biology 31 (15), pp. 1 - 9 (2021)
2020
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Grabe, V.; Schubert, M.; Strube-Bloss, M.; Reinert, A.; Trautheim, S.; Lavista-Llanos, S.; Fiala, A.; Hansson, B. S.; Sachse, S.: Odor-induced multi-level inhibitory maps in Drosophila. eNeuro 7 (1), pp. 1 - 18 (2020)
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Khallaf, M. A.; Auer, T. O.; Grabe, V.; Depetris-Chauvin, A.; Ammagarahalli, B.; Zhang, D.-D.; Lavista-Llanos, S.; Kaftan, F.; Weißflog, J.; Matzkin, L. M. et al.; Rollmann, S. M.; Löfstedt, C.; Svatoš, A.; Dweck, H.; Sachse, S.; Benton, R.; Hansson, B. S.; Knaden, M.: Mate discrimination among subspecies through a conserved olfactory pathway. Science Advances 6 (25), eaba5279 (2020)
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