Coordination of wing motion and walking suggests common control of zigzag motor program in a male silkworm moth

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 267-276

  Kanzaki, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Moth; Motor program; Pheromone; Wing fluttering; Zigzag walking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031889934     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050177     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Arbas EA, Willis MA, Kanzaki R (1993) Organization of goal-oriented locomotion: pheromone-modulated flight behavior of moths. In: Beer RD, Ritzmann RE, McKenna T (eds) Biological neural networks in invertebrate neuroethology and robotics. Academic Press, San Diego, pp 159-198
2. Ariyoshi T, Kanzaki R (1996) Pheromone-triggered electromyograms of 'flight' muscles in a male silkworm moth, Bombyx mori. Int J Wild Silkmoth Silk 2: 21-25
3. Baker TC (1990) Upwind flight and casting flight: complementary phasic and tonic systems used for location of sex pheromone sources by male moths. In: Døving KB (ed) ISOT X, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste. GCS/AS, Oslo, pp 18-25
4. Baker TC, Kuenen LPS (1982) Pheromone source location by flying moths: a supplementary nonanemotactic mechanism. Science 216: 424-427
5. Butenandt A, Beckmann R, Stamm D, Hecker E (1959) Über den Sexual-Lockstoff des Seidenspinners Bombyx mori. Reindarstellung und Konstitution. Z Naturforsch 14: 283-284
6. Eaton JL (1971) Morphology of the head and thorax of the adult tobacco horn worm, Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Ann Entomol Soc Am 64: 437-445
7. Eaton JL (1974) Nervous system of the head and thorax of the adult tobacco horn worm. Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Int J Insect Morphol Embryol 3: 47-66
8. Fujii H, Matsui K, Kawaguchi Y (1989) Can the silkworm moth fly? (in Japanese). Kyusyu Sanshi 20: 47
9. Kammer AE (1968) Motor patterns during flight and warm-up in Lepidoptera. J Exp Biol 48: 89-109
10. Kammer AE (1971) The motor output during turning flight in a hawkmoth, Manduca sexta. J Insect Physiol 17: 1073-1086
11. Kammer AE, Nachtigall W (1973) Changing phase relationships among motor units during flight in a saturniid moth. J Comp Physiol 83: 17-24
12. Kanzaki R (1996) Pheromone processing in the lateral accessory lobes of the moth brain: flipflopping signals related to zigzagging upwind walking. In: Cardé RT. Minks AK (eds) Pheromone research: new direction. Chapman and Hall, New York, pp 291-303
13. Kanzaki R, Arbas EA (1990) Olfactory and visual influences on fictive flight in Manduca sexta. Soc Neurosci Abstr 16: 758
14. Kanzaki R, Ikeda A (1994) Morphology and physiology of pheromone-triggered flip-flop descending interneurons of the male silkworm moth, Bombyx mori. In: Kurihara K, Suzuki N, Ogawa H (eds) Olfaction and Taste XI. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 851
15. Kanzaki R, Mishima T (1996) Pheromone-triggered 'flipflopping' neural signals correlated with activities of neck motor neurons of a male moth. Bombyx mori. Zool Sci 13: 79-87
16. Kanzaki R, Shibuya T (1986) Descending protocerebral neurons related to the mating dance of the male silkworm moth. Brain Res 377: 378-382
17. Kanzaki R, Shibuya T (1992) Personal computer-based processing technique for analyzing insect mating behavior to sex pheromone odor. Sensors Materials 4: 1-9
18. Kanzaki R, Arbas EA. Strausfeld NJ, Hildebrand JG (1989) Physiology and morphology of projection neurons in the antennal lobe of the male moth, Manduca sexta. J Comp Physiol A 165: 427-453
19. Kanzaki R, Sugi N, Shibuya T (1992) Self-generated zigzag turning of Bombyx mori males during pheromone-mediated upwind walking. Zool Sci 9: 515-527
20. Kanzaki R, Ikeda A, Shibuya T (1994) Morphology and physiology of pheromone-triggered flip-flop descending interneurons of the male silkworm moth, Bombyx mori. J Comp Physiol A 175: 1-14
21. Kanzaki R, Ariyoshi T, Fukuda F (1995) Strategies for odor-searching behavior in a silkworm moth, Bombyx mori. In: Burrows M, Matheson T, Newland P, Schuppe H (eds) Nervous systems and behavior. Thieme, Stuttgart, pp 392
22. Kennedy JS (1983) Zigzagging and casting as a programmed response to wind-borne odour: a review. Physiol Entomol 8: 109-120
23. Kramer E (1975) Orientation of the male silkmoth to the sex attractant bombykol. In: Denton DA, Coghlan J (eds) Mechanisms in insect olfaction. Academic Press, New York, pp 329-335
24. Kramer E (1986) Turbulent diffusion and pheromone-triggered anemotaxis. In: Payne T, Birch M, Kennedy C (eds) Mechanisms in insect olfaction. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 59-67
25. Kramer E (1996) A tentative intercausal nexus and its computer model on insect orientation in windborne pheromone plumes. In: Cardé R, Minks A (eds) Pheromone research: new directions. Chapman and Hall, London, pp 232-247
26. Kuenen LPS, Baker TC (1983) A non-anemotactic mechanism used in pheromone source location by flying moths. Physiol Entomol 8: 277-289
27. Mafra-Neto A, Cardé RT (1994) Fine-scale structure of pheromone plumes modulates upwind orientation of flying moths. Nature (Lond) 369: 142-144
28. Mishima T, Kanzaki R (1995) The function of the flipflopping neural activity involved in the pheromone-searching behavior of a male silkworm moth, Bombyx mori. In: Burrows M, Matheson T, Newland P, Schuppe H (eds) Nervous systems and behavior. Thieme, Stuttgart, p 393
29. Obara Y (1979) Bombyx mori mating dance: an essential in locating the female. Appl Entomol Zool 14: 130-132
30. Olberg RM (1983) Pheromone-triggered flip-flopping interneurons in the ventral nerve cord of the silkworm moth, Bombyx mori. J Comp Physiol A 152: 297-307
31. Rheuben MB, Kammer AE (1987) Structure and innervation of the third axillary muscle of Manduca relative to its role in turning flight. J Exp Biol 131: 373-402
32. Vickers NJ, Baker TC (1992) Male Heliothis virescens maintain upwind flight in response to experimentally pulsed filaments of their sex pheromone (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). J Insect Behav 5: 669-687
33. Vickers NJ, Baker TC (1994) Reiterative responses to single strands of odor promote sustained upwind flight and odor source location by moths. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91: 5756-5760
34. Vickers NJ, Baker TC (1996) Latencies of behavioral response to interception of filaments of sex pheromone and clean air influence flight track shape in Heliothis virescens (F.) males. J Comp Physiol A 178: 831-847
35. Wendler G, Müller M, Dombrowski U (1993) The activity of pleurodorsal muscles during flight and at rest in the moth Manduca sexta (L.). J Comp Physiol A 173: 65-75
36. Willis MA, Arbas EA (1991) Odor-modulated upwind flight of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta. J Comp Physiol A 169: 427-440
37. Willis MA, Arbas EA (1995) Altering the visual surround predictably shapes the pheromone-modulated flight performance of moths Manduca sexta. In: Burrows M, Matheson T, Newland P, Schuppe H (eds) Nervous systems and behavior. Thieme, Stuttgart, p 394
38. Willis MA, Arbas EA (1996) Adaptive behavior and reflexive responses: another perspective on odor-guided locomotion. In: Cardé R, Minks A (eds) Pheromone research: new directions. Chapman and Hall, London, pp 304-319