Distance and force production during jumping in wild-type and mutant Drosophila melanogaster

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 3515-3522

  Zumstein, Nina ^a   Forman, Oliver ^a,b   Nongthomba, Upendra ^a   Sparrow, John C ^a   Elliott, Christopher J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Drosophila; hono; Jumping; M18; Octopamine; Tergal depressor of trochanter; Tergotrochanteral muscle; Tyramine

Indexed keywords

OCTOPAMINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OCTOPAMINE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 6344237381     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01181     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Alexander, R. McN. (2003). Principles of Animal Locomotion. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press.
2. Arakawa, S., Gocayne, J. D., McCombie, W. R., Urquhart, D. A., Hall, L. M., Fraser, C. M. and Venter, J. C. (1990). Cloning, localization, and permanent expression of a Drosophila octopamine receptor. Neuron 4, 343-354.
3. Bacon, J. P. and Strausfeld, N. J. (1986). The dipteran giant fiber pathway - neurons and signals. J. Comp. Physiol. A 158, 529-548.
4. Bennet-Clark, H. C. (1975). The energetics of the jump of the locust Schistocerca gregaria. J. Exp. Biol. 63, 53-83.
5. Bennet-Clark, H. C. and Alder, G. M. (1979). The effect of air resistance on the jumping performance of insects. J. Exp. Biol. 82, 105-121.
6. Bennet-Clark, H. C. and Lucey, E. C. (1967). The jump of the flea: a study of the energetics and a model of the mechanism. J. Exp. Biol. 47, 59-67.
7. Blagburn, J. M., Alexopoulos, H., Davies, J. A. and Bacon, J. P. (1999). Null mutation in shaking-B eliminates electrical, but not chemical, synapses in the Drosophila giant fiber system: a structural study. J. Comp. Neurol. 404, 449-458.
8. Burrows, M. (2003). Biomechanics: froghopper insects leap to new heights. Nature 424, 509.
9. Burrows, M. and Morris, O. (2003). Jumping and kicking in bush crickets. J. Exp. Biol. 206, 1035-1049.
10. Burrows, M. and Wolf, H. (2002). Jumping and kicking in the false stick insect Prosarthria: kinematics and neural control. J. Exp. Biol. 205, 1519-1530.
11. Carpenter, J. M. (1950). A new semisynthetic food medium for Drosophila. Dros. Inf. Serv. 24, 96-97.
12. Duch, C., Mentel, T. and Pfluger, H. J. (1999). Distribution and activation of different types of octopaminergic DUM neurons in the locust. J. Comp. Neurol. 403, 119-134.
13. Evans, P. D. and O'Shea, M. (1977). An octopaminergic neurone modulates neuromuscular transmission in the locust. Nature 270, 257-259.
14. Gordon, A. M., Huxley, A. F. and Julian, F. J. (1966). The variation in isometric tension with sarcomere length in vertebrate muscle fibres. J. Physiol. 184, 170-192.
15. Hannan, F. and Hall, L. M. (1996). Temporal and spatial expression patterns of two G-protein coupled receptors in Drosophila melanogaster. Invert. Neurosci. 2, 71-83.
16. Heitler, W. J. (1974). The locust jump: specializations of the metathoracic femoral-tibial joint. J. Comp. Physiol. 89, 93-104.
17. Josephson, R. K., Malamud, J. G. and Stokes, D. R. (2000). Power output by an asynchronous flight muscle from a beetle. J. Exp. Biol. 203, 2667-2689.
18. Kaplan, W. D. and Trout, W. E. (1974). Genetic manipulation of an abnormal jump response in Drosophila. Genetics 77, 721-739.
19. Kutsukake, M., Komatsu, A., Yamamoto, D. and Ishiwa-Chigusa, S. (2000). A tyramine receptor gene mutation causes a defective olfactory behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. Gene 245, 31-42.
20. Lehmann, F. O. and Dickinson, M. H. (1997). The changes in power requirements and muscle efficiency during elevated force production in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. J. Exp. Biol. 200, 1133-1143.
21. Miller, A. (1950). The internal anatomy and histology of imago of Drosophila melanogaster. In Biology of Drosophila (ed. M. Demerec), pp. 424-442. New York: Wiley.
22. Monastirioti, M., Linn, C. E. and White, K. (1996). Characterization of Drosophila tyramine beta-hydroxylase gene and isolation of mutant flies lacking octopamine. J. Neurosci. 16, 3900-3911.
23. Nagaya, Y., Kutsukake, M., Chigusa, S. I. and Komatsu, A. (2002). A trace amine, tyramine, functions as a neuromodulator in Drosophila melanogaster. Neurosci. Lett. 329, 324-328.
24. Peckham, M., Molloy, J. E., Sparrow, J. C. and White, D. C. S. (1990). Physiological properties of the dorsal longitudinal flight muscle and the tergal depressor of the trochanter muscle of Drosophila melanogaster. J. Muscle Res. Cell Mot. 11, 203-215.
25. Reale, V., Hannan, F., Midgley, J. M. and Evans, P. D. (1997). The expression of a cloned Drosophila octopamine/tyramine receptor in Xenopus oocytes. Brain Res. 769, 309-320.
26. Rivlin, P. K., St Clair, R. M., Vilinsky, I. and Deitcher, D. L. (2004). Morphology and molecular organization of the adult neuromuscular junction of Drosophila. J. Comp. Neurol. 468, 596-613.
27. Robb, S., Cheek, T. R., Hannan, F. L., Hall, L. M., Midgley, J. M. and Evans, P. D. (1994). Agonist-specific coupling of a cloned Drosophila octopamine/tyramine receptor to multiple 2nd messenger systems. EMBO J. 13, 1325-1330.
28. Saudou, F., Amlaiky, N., Plassat, J. L., Borrelli, E. and Hen, R. (1990). Cloning and characterization of a Drosophila tyramine receptor. EMBO J. 9, 3611-3617.
29. Schlurmann, M. and Hausen, K. (2003). Mesothoracic ventral unpaired median (MesVUM) neurons in the blowfly Calliphora erythrocephala. J. Comp. Neurol. 467, 435-453.
30. Tanouye, M. A. and Wyman, R. J. (1980). Motor outputs of giant nerve fiber in Drosophila. J. Neurophysiol. 44, 405-421.
31. Trimarchi, J. R. and Schneiderman, A. M. (1993). Giant fiber activation of an intrinsic muscle in the mesothoracic leg of Drosophila melanogaster. J. Exp. Biol. 177, 149-167.
32. Trimarchi, J. R. and Schneiderman, A. M. (1995a). Flight initiations in Drosophila melanogaster are mediated by several distinct motor patterns. J. Comp. Physiol A 176, 355-364.
33. Trimarchi, J. R. and Schneiderman, A. M. (1995b). Initiation of flight in the unrestrained fly, Drosophila melanogaster. J. Zool. 235, 211-222.