Visual edge orientation shapes free-flight behavior in Drosophila

Fly

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 153-154

  Frye, Mark A ^a   Dickinson, Michael H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flight control; Lobula plate; Motor control; Optic flow; Vision

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; FLYING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 40149110525     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.4563     Document Type: Article

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