Free-flight odor tracking in Drosophila is consistent with an optimal intermittent scale-free search

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Reynolds, Andy M ^a   Frye, Mark A ^b  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; SMELLING; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; FLYING; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ANIMALIA; ATELES SP.; AVES; DIOMEDEIDAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; ODORS; SACCADES;

EID: 55849107781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000354     Document Type: Article

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