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The roles of vision and antennal mechanoreception in hawkmoth flight control
Flying animals need continual sensory feedback about their body position and orientation for flight control. The visual system provides essential but slow feedback. In contrast, mechanosensory channels can provide feedback at much shorter timescales. How the contributions from these two senses are i...
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2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6303104/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30526849 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37606 |
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author | Dahake, Ajinkya Stöckl, Anna L Foster, James J Sane, Sanjay P Kelber, Almut |
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description | Flying animals need continual sensory feedback about their body position and orientation for flight control. The visual system provides essential but slow feedback. In contrast, mechanosensory channels can provide feedback at much shorter timescales. How the contributions from these two senses are integrated remains an open question in most insect groups. In Diptera, fast mechanosensory feedback is provided by organs called halteres and is crucial for the control of rapid flight manoeuvres, while vision controls manoeuvres in lower temporal frequency bands. Here, we have investigated the visual-mechanosensory integration in the hawkmoth Macroglossum stellatarum. They represent a large group of insects that use Johnston’s organs in their antennae to provide mechanosensory feedback on perturbations in body position. Our experiments show that antennal mechanosensory feedback specifically mediates fast flight manoeuvres, but not slow ones. Moreover, we did not observe compensatory interactions between antennal and visual feedback. |
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spelling | pubmed-63031042019-01-04 The roles of vision and antennal mechanoreception in hawkmoth flight control Dahake, Ajinkya Stöckl, Anna L Foster, James J Sane, Sanjay P Kelber, Almut eLife Neuroscience Flying animals need continual sensory feedback about their body position and orientation for flight control. The visual system provides essential but slow feedback. In contrast, mechanosensory channels can provide feedback at much shorter timescales. How the contributions from these two senses are integrated remains an open question in most insect groups. In Diptera, fast mechanosensory feedback is provided by organs called halteres and is crucial for the control of rapid flight manoeuvres, while vision controls manoeuvres in lower temporal frequency bands. Here, we have investigated the visual-mechanosensory integration in the hawkmoth Macroglossum stellatarum. They represent a large group of insects that use Johnston’s organs in their antennae to provide mechanosensory feedback on perturbations in body position. Our experiments show that antennal mechanosensory feedback specifically mediates fast flight manoeuvres, but not slow ones. Moreover, we did not observe compensatory interactions between antennal and visual feedback. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2018-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6303104/ /pubmed/30526849 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37606 Text en © 2018, Dahake et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Dahake, Ajinkya Stöckl, Anna L Foster, James J Sane, Sanjay P Kelber, Almut The roles of vision and antennal mechanoreception in hawkmoth flight control |
title | The roles of vision and antennal mechanoreception in hawkmoth flight control |
title_full | The roles of vision and antennal mechanoreception in hawkmoth flight control |
title_fullStr | The roles of vision and antennal mechanoreception in hawkmoth flight control |
title_full_unstemmed | The roles of vision and antennal mechanoreception in hawkmoth flight control |
title_short | The roles of vision and antennal mechanoreception in hawkmoth flight control |
title_sort | roles of vision and antennal mechanoreception in hawkmoth flight control |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6303104/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30526849 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37606 |
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