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3D escape: an alternative paradigm for spatial orientation studies in insects
Arthropods and in particular insects show a great variety of different exoskeletal sensors. For most arthropods, spatial orientation and gravity perception is not fully understood. In particular, the interaction of the different sensors is still a subject of ongoing research. A disadvantage of most...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10006273/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36190542 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00359-022-01574-x |
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author | Bruns, Christoph Labisch, Susanna Dirks, Jan-Henning |
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description | Arthropods and in particular insects show a great variety of different exoskeletal sensors. For most arthropods, spatial orientation and gravity perception is not fully understood. In particular, the interaction of the different sensors is still a subject of ongoing research. A disadvantage of most of the experimental methods used to date to study the spatial orientation of arthropods in behavioral experiments is that the body or individual body parts are fixed partly in a non-natural manner. Therefore, often only the movement of individual body segments can be used to evaluate the experiments. We here present a novel experimental method to easily study 3D-escape movements in insects and analyze whole-body reaction. The animals are placed in a transparent container, filled with a lightweight substrate and rotating around two axes. To verify our setup, house crickets (Acheta domesticus) with selectively manipulated gravity-perceiving structures were analyzed. The spatial orientation behavior was quantified by measuring the time individuals took to escape toward the surface and the angular deviation toward the gravitational vector. These experiments confirm earlier results and therefore validated our experimental setup. Our new approach thus allows to investigate several comprehensive questions regarding the spatial orientation of insects and other animals. |
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spelling | pubmed-100062732023-03-12 3D escape: an alternative paradigm for spatial orientation studies in insects Bruns, Christoph Labisch, Susanna Dirks, Jan-Henning J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol Original Paper Arthropods and in particular insects show a great variety of different exoskeletal sensors. For most arthropods, spatial orientation and gravity perception is not fully understood. In particular, the interaction of the different sensors is still a subject of ongoing research. A disadvantage of most of the experimental methods used to date to study the spatial orientation of arthropods in behavioral experiments is that the body or individual body parts are fixed partly in a non-natural manner. Therefore, often only the movement of individual body segments can be used to evaluate the experiments. We here present a novel experimental method to easily study 3D-escape movements in insects and analyze whole-body reaction. The animals are placed in a transparent container, filled with a lightweight substrate and rotating around two axes. To verify our setup, house crickets (Acheta domesticus) with selectively manipulated gravity-perceiving structures were analyzed. The spatial orientation behavior was quantified by measuring the time individuals took to escape toward the surface and the angular deviation toward the gravitational vector. These experiments confirm earlier results and therefore validated our experimental setup. Our new approach thus allows to investigate several comprehensive questions regarding the spatial orientation of insects and other animals. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-10-03 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10006273/ /pubmed/36190542 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00359-022-01574-x Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Bruns, Christoph Labisch, Susanna Dirks, Jan-Henning 3D escape: an alternative paradigm for spatial orientation studies in insects |
title | 3D escape: an alternative paradigm for spatial orientation studies in insects |
title_full | 3D escape: an alternative paradigm for spatial orientation studies in insects |
title_fullStr | 3D escape: an alternative paradigm for spatial orientation studies in insects |
title_full_unstemmed | 3D escape: an alternative paradigm for spatial orientation studies in insects |
title_short | 3D escape: an alternative paradigm for spatial orientation studies in insects |
title_sort | 3d escape: an alternative paradigm for spatial orientation studies in insects |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10006273/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36190542 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00359-022-01574-x |
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