Current position
Professor, Visual
Science Group.
Research interests.
I am interested in the evolution of visual systems in arthropods
(Diptera, Hymenoptera, Crustacea) and in particular in visually
guided behaviour and compound eye specialisations as they relate
to the natural conditions in which animals have to operate. In
the Visual Ecology Group we are currently studying visual memory
and homing in insects, the role of behaviour in signal and information
processing, and the visual behaviour and visual ecology of fiddler
crabs.
For details see the Visual
Ecology website
Visit also the Centre for Visual
Sciences , for an overview of the wider research environment
here at the Australian National University.
Selected Publications
2008
Stürzl W, Cheung A, Cheng K, Zeil J (2008) The information content of panoramic images: I. Rotational errors and the similarity of views in rectangular experimental arenas. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behaviour Processes 34: 1-14.
Cheung A, Stürzl W, Zeil J, Cheng K (2008) The information content of panoramic images: II. View-based navigation in non-rectangular experimental arenas. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behaviour Processes 34: 15-30.
How JM, Zeil J, Hemmi JM, Peters R (2008) Claw waving display changes with receiver distance in fiddler crabs, Uca perplexa. Animal Behaviour 75: 1015-1022.
Peters R, Hemmi JM, Zeil J (2008) Image motion environments: Background noise for movement-based animal signals. Journal of Comparative Physiology A (online)
Zeil J, Boeddeker N, Hemmi JM (2008) Vision and the organization of behaviour. Current Biology (in press)
Zeil J, Boeddeker N, Hemmi JM (2008) Visually Guided Behaviour. In Squire LR (ed) New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Elsevier (in press)
Zeil J (2008) Orientation, Navigation and Search. In Jørgensen SE (ed) Encyclopedia of Ecology. Elsevier (in press)
2007
Stürzl W, Zeil J (2007) Depth, contrast and view-based homing in outdoor scenes. Biological Cybernetics 96: 519-531 [pdf 850kb]
How MJ, Zeil J, Hemmi JM (2007) Differences in context and function of two distinct waving displays in the fiddler crab, Uca perplexa (Decapoda: Ocypodidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 137-148.
Peters R, Hemmi JM, Zeil J (2007) Signalling against the wind: modifying motion signal structure in response to increased noise. Current Biology 17: 1231-1234.
Greiner B, Narendra A, Reid SF, Dacke M, Ribi WA, Zeil J (2007) Eye structure correlates with distinct foraging-bout timing in primitive ants. Current Biology 17: R879-R880.
Hemmi JM, Zeil J (2007) The Ecology of Information Processing. In Connell SD, Gillanders BM (eds): Marine Ecology, Oxford University Press, pp. 441-442
Zeil J, Boeddeker N, Hemmi JM, Stürzl W (2007) Going Wild: Toward an Ecology of Visual Information Processing. In North G, Greenspan R (eds) Invertebrate Neurobiology, Cold Spring Harbor Press, pp. 381-403
2006
Detto T, Backwell PRY, Hemmi JM, Zeil J (2006) Visually mediated species and neighbour recognition in fiddler crabs (Uca mjoebergi and Uca capricornis). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 273: 1661-1666 [pdf 400kb]
Vladusich T, Hemmi J M, Zeil J (2006) Honeybee odometry and scent guidance. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 1367-1375 [pdf 228kb]
Hemmi JM, Marshall J, Pix W, Vorobyev M, Zeil J (2006) The variable colours of the fiddler crab Uca vomeris and their relation to background and predation. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 4140-4153 [pdf 2339kb]
Zeil J, Hemmi JM (2006) The visual ecology of fiddler crabs. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 192: 1–25 [pdf 1623kb]
Zeil J, Hemmi JM, Backwell PRY (2006) Quick Guide: Fiddler Crabs. Current Biology 16: R40-R41 [pdf 4459kb]
2005
Zanker JM, Zeil J (2005) Movement-induced motion signal distributions in outdoor scenes. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 16: 357-376 [pdf 2186kb]
Boeddeker N, Lindemann JP, Egelhaaf M, Zeil J (2005) Responses of blowfly motion-sensitive neurons to reconstructed optic flow along outdoor flight paths. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 191: 1143-1155 [pdf 852kb]
Vladusich T, Hemmi JM, Srinivasan MV, Zeil J (2005) Interactions of visual odometry and landmark guidance during food search in honeybees. Journal of Experimental Biology 208: 4123-4135 [pdf 378kb]
Hemmi JM, Zeil J (2005) Animals as prey: perceptual limitations and behavioural options. Marine Ecology Progress Series 287: 274-278. [pdf 468kb]
Zeil J (2005) Don’t underestimate the little ones! Book Review of Prete FR (ed) Complex worlds from simpler nervous systems. Journal of Experimental Biology 208:1771-1772.
2004
Stavenga DG, Stowe S, Siebke K, Zeil J, Arikawa K (2004) Butterfly wing colours: scale beads make white pierid wings brighter. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B271: 1577-1584 [pdf 1967kb]
Detto T, Zeil J, Magrath R, Hunt S (2004) Sex, size and colour in the semaphore crab Heloecius cordiformis. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 302: 1-15
[pdf 504kb]
2003
Hemmi JM, Zeil J (2003) Robust judgement of inter-object distance
by an arthropod. Nature 421: 160-163.
[pdf
312kb]
Zeil J, Hofmann MI, Chahl J (2003) The catchment areas of panoramic
snapshots in outdoor scenes. Journal of the Optical Society of
America A 20: 450-469.
[pdf
3055kb] – Copyright OSA]
2002
Zeil J, Layne J (2002) Path integration in fiddler crabs and
its relation to habitat and social life. In: Wiese K (ed) Crustacean
Experimental Systems in Neurobiology. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg,
Berlin New York, pp227-247.
2001
Zeil J, Hofmann M (2001) Signals from crabworld: Cuticular reflections
in a fiddler crab colony. Journal of Experimental Biology 204:
2561-2569.
[pdf
356kb]
Eckert MP, Zeil J (2001) Towards an ecology of motion vision.
In Zanker JM, Zeil J (eds) Motion Vision: Computational, neural
and ecological constraints. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg
New York. pp333-369.
1998
Collett TS, Zeil J (1998) Places and landmarks: an Arthropod
perspective. In Healy S (ed) Spatial representation in animals.
Oxford University Press, pp18-53.
1997
Zeil J, Zanker JM (1997) A glimpse into crabworld. Vision Research
37: 3417-3426.
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