The role of experience in flight behaviour of Drosophila

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 3377-3386

  Hesselberg, Thomas ^a   Lehmann, Fritz Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flight experience; Force production; Free flight performance; Fruit fly; Motor learning, locomotor plasticity; Saccades; Wing kinematics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FLYING; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MEMORY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MEMORY; MOTION PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WING;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349687730     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.025221     Document Type: Article

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