Publications
Conference presentations and posters, invited talks and other publications
Research papers
In preparation
Bradley S, Camunas Mesa L, Quian Quiroga R and Matheson T (in preparation) Spike sorting for multiple-channel nerve and muscle recordings.
Nielsen TA and Matheson T (in preparation) A new Bayesian analysis method reveals that properties of an identified synapse differ in solitarious and gregarious locusts.
Matheson T and Sheehy MRJ (in preparation) Motor function and lipofuscin accumulation in ageing solitarious and gregarious locusts.
Clare A, Zakotnik J, Blackburn L, Matheson T and Dürr V (in preparation) Activation dynamics model for an invertebrate muscle.
Zakotnik J, Page KL, Matheson T and Dürr V (in preparation) The motor basis for load compensation in aimed limb movements of an insect.
2013
Calas-List D, Clare AJ, Komissarova A, Nielsen TA and Matheson T (submitted) Motor inhibition affects the speed but not accuracy of aimed limb movements in an insect.
2012
Ache JM and Matheson T (2012) Passive resting state and history of antagonist muscle activity shape active extensions in an insect limb. Journal of Neurophysiology 107: 2756-2768. doi: 10.1152/jn.01072.2011.
Gaten T, Huston SJ, Dowse HB & Matheson T (2012) Solitary and gregarious locusts differ in circadian rhythmicity of a visual output neuron. Journal of Biological Rhythms 27: 196-205. doi: 10.1177/0748730412440860.
2011
Nielsen TA, Nilsson H and Matheson T (2011) A formal mathematical framework for physiological observations, experiments and analyses. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 9: 1040-1050. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0616.
Badisco L, Ott SR, Rogers SM, Matheson T, Knapen D, Vergauwen L, Verlinden H, Marchal E, Sheehy MRJ, Burrows M, Vanden Broeck J. (2011) Microarray-based transcriptomic analysis of differences between long-term gregarious and solitarious desert locusts. PLoS ONE 6(11): e28110. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028110.
2010
Matheson T (2010) A somewhat neglected aspect of insect neurophysiology. Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 3077-3079. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.034918 (JEB Classics review)
Blackburn LM, Ott SR, Matheson T, Burrows M and Rogers SM (2010) Motor neurone responses during a postural reflex in solitarious and gregarious desert locusts. Journal of Insect Physiology 56: 902-910. DOI:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.04.011
Rogers SM, Harston GWJ, Kilburn-Toppin F, Matheson T, Burrows M, Gabbiani F and Krapp HG (2010) Spatiotemporal receptive field properties of a looming-sensitive neuron in solitarious and gregarious phases of the desert locust. Journal of Neurophysiology 103: 779 - 792. DOI:10.1152/jn.00855.2009
Nielsen TA, Matheson T and Nilsson H (2010). Braincurry: a domain-specific language for integrative neuroscience. In: Trends in Functional Programming Volume 10, Eds Horvath Z and Zsok V. Intellect, UK / The University of Chicago Press, USA. pp 161-176. (ISBN 9781841504056) (Refereed Conference paper)
2009
Page KL and Matheson T (2009) Functional recovery of aimed scratching movements following a graded proprioceptive manipulation. Journal of Neuroscience 29: 3897 - 3907. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0089-09.2009
2008
Matheson T (2008) Motor Planning: Insects Do It on the Hop. Current Biology 18: R742 - R743. DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.039
Page KL, Zakotnik J, Dürr V and Matheson T (2008) The motor control of aimed limb movements in an insect. Journal of Neurophysiology 99: 484 - 499. DOI:10.1152/jn.00922.2007
2007
Rogers SM, Krapp HG, Burrows M and Matheson T (2007) Compensatory plasticity at an identified synapse tunes a visuo-motor pathway. Journal of Neuroscience 27(17): 4621 - 4633. DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4615-06.2007
2006
Young JS, Peck LS and Matheson T (2006) The effects of temperature on walking and righting in temperate and Antarctic crustaceans. Polar Biology 29 (11): 978-987. DOI 10.1007/s00300-006-0140-7.
Young JS, Peck LS and Matheson T (2006) The effects of temperature on peripheral neuronal function in eurythermal and stenothermal crustaceans. Journal of Experimental Biology, 209: 1976-1987. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02224
Zakotnik J, Matheson T and Dürr V (2006) Co-contraction and passive forces facilitate load compensation of aimed limb movements. Journal of Neuroscience 26(19): 4995-5007. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0161-06.2006
2004
Rogers SM, Matheson T, Sasaki K, Kendrick K, Simpson SJ and Burrows M (2004) Substantial changes in central nervous system neurotransmitters and neuromodulators accompany phase change in the locusts. Journal of Experimental Biology 207: 3603-3617. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01183.
Page KL and Matheson T (2004) Wing hair sensilla underlying aimed hindleg scratching of the locust. Journal of Experimental Biology 207: 2691-2703. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01096.
Zakotnik J, Matheson T and Dürr V (2004) A posture optimisation algorithm for model-based motion capture of natural movement sequences. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 135: 43-54.
Matheson T, Rogers, SM and Krapp HG (2004) Plasticity in the visual system is correlated with a change in lifestyle of solitarious and gregarious locusts. Journal of Neurophysiology 91: 1-12. DOI:10.1152/jn.00795.2003.
2003
Rogers SM, Matheson T, Despland E, Dodgson T, Burrows M and Simpson SJ (2003) Mechanisms of mechanosensory induced behavioural gregarization in the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria. Journal of Experimental Biology 206: 3991 - 4002. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00648.
Matheson T and Dürr V (2003) Load compensation in targeted limb movements of an insect. Journal of Experimental Biology 206: 3175-3186. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00534.
Dürr V and Matheson T (2003) Graded limb targeting in an insect is caused by the shift of a single movement pattern. Journal of Neurophysiology 90: 1754 - 1765. DOI:10.1152/jn.00416.2003.
Römisch K and Matheson T (2003) Cell biology in the Antarctic: studying life in the freezer. Nature Cell Biology 4: 3 - 6.
2002
Matheson T (2002) Invertebrate Nervous Systems. In Encyclopaedia of Life Sciences, London: Nature Publishing Group.
Matheson T (2002) Metathoracic neurons integrating intersegmental sensory information in the locust. Journal of Comparative Neurology 444: 95 - 114.
2001
Faisal AA and Matheson T (2001) Coordinated righting behaviour in the locust. Journal of Experimental Biology 204: 637-648.
2000
Newland PL, Rogers SM, Gaaboub I and Matheson T (2000) Parallel somatotopic maps of gustatory and mechanosensory neurons in the central nervous system of an insect. Journal of Comparative Neurology 425: 82-96.
1998
Matheson T (1998) Contralateral coordination and retargeting of limb movements during scratching in the locust. Journal of Experimental Biology 201: 2021-2032.
Field LH and Matheson T (1998) Chordotonal organs of insects. Advances in Insect Physiology 27: 1-228.
1997
Matheson T (1997) Octopamine modulates the responses and presynaptic inhibition of proprioceptive sensory neurons in the locust Schistocerca gregaria. Journal of Experimental Biology 200: 1317-1325.
Matheson T (1997) Hindleg targeting during scratching in the locust. Journal of Experimental Biology 200: 93-100.
1995
Matheson T and Field LH (1995) An elaborate tension receptor system highlights sensory complexity in the hind leg of the locust. Journal of Experimental Biology 198: 1673-1689.
Burrows M, Matheson T, Newland PL and Schuppe H (eds) (1995) Nervous Systems and Behaviour: Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of Neuroethology. Stuttgart, New York: Georg Thieme Verlag. 496p.
1994
Burrows M and Matheson T (1994) A presynaptic gain control mechanism among sensory neurons of a locust leg proprioceptor. Journal of Neuroscience 14: 272-282.
1992
Matheson T (1992) Morphology of the central projections of physiologically characterised neurons from the locust metathoracic femoral chordotonal organ. Journal of Comparative Physiology 170: 101-120.
Matheson T (1992) Range fractionation in the locust metathoracic femoral chordotonal organ. Journal of Comparative Physiology 170: 509-520.
1991
Matheson T and Ditz F (1991) A simple computer-controlled analogue ramp generator for producing multiple ramp-and-hold stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 39: 45-52.
1990
Matheson T (1990) Responses and locations of neurons in the metathoracic femoral chordotonal organ of the locust. Journal of Comparative Physiology 166: 915-927.
Matheson T and Field LH (1990) Innervation of the locust metathoracic femoral chordotonal organ. Cell and Tissue Research 259: 551-560.
1988
Matheson T (1988) Two previously unreported behaviours of Hemigrapsus crenulatus Milne-Edwards (Brachyura: Grapsidae) from New Zealand. New Zealand Natural Sciences 15: 91-92.
