Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila

Nature

Volumn 519, Issue 7542, 2015, Pages 233-236

  Ramdya, Pavan ^a,b   Lichocki, Pawel ^b,c,d   Cruchet, Steeve ^a   Frisch, Lukas ^b   Tse, Winnie ^b   Floreano, Dario ^b   Benton, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d GOOGLE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TETANUS TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NOMPC PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANOSENSORY INTERACTION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSILLUM; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STIMULUS; TASTE BUD; TOUCH; WILD TYPE; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; LIMB; MALE; MASS BEHAVIOR; MECHANORECEPTOR; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ESCAPE REACTION; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; MALE; MASS BEHAVIOR; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; ODORS; OPTOGENETICS; SENSILLA; TOUCH; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNELS;

EID: 84925487339     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14024     Document Type: Article

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