Flies dynamically anti-track, rather than ballistically escape, aversive odor during flight

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2833-2840

  Wasserman, Sara ^a   Lu, Patrick ^a   Aptekar, Jacob W ^a   Frye, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Insect flight; Odor tracking; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTENNA (ORGAN); APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FLYING; FOOD; FORELIMB; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SMELLING; TIME;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; CUES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCAPE REACTION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOOD; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS; WING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84864337445     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.072082     Document Type: Article

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