The influence of visual landscape on the free flight behavior of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 327-343

  Tammero, Lance F ^a   Dickinson, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Drosophila melanogaster; Flight; Motion detection; Optic flow; Saccade; Visual control

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FLYING; MALE; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; MOTION; SACCADES; VISION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036326858     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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