Turning behaviour depends on frictional damping in the fruit fly Drosophila

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 4319-4334

  Hesselberg, Thomas ^a   Lehmann, Fritz Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body friction; Flight control; Flight saccade; Steering capacity; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FLYING; FRICTION; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; ROTATION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FRICTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; ROTATION; SACCADES; VISION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 38149036709     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.010389     Document Type: Article

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