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Vision and air flow combine to streamline flying honeybees

Insects face the challenge of integrating multi-sensory information to control their flight. Here we study a ‘streamlining' response in honeybees, whereby honeybees raise their abdomen to reduce drag. We find that this response, which was recently reported to be mediated by optic flow, is also...

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Autores principales: Taylor, Gavin J., Luu, Tien, Ball, David, Srinivasan, Mandyam V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3767942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24019053
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02614