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Integration of visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback during head stabilization in hawkmoths
During flight maneuvers, insects exhibit compensatory head movements which are essential for stabilizing the visual field on their retina, reducing motion blur, and supporting visual self-motion estimation. In Diptera, such head movements are mediated via visual feedback from their compound eyes tha...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9259029/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35758646 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78410 |
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author | Chatterjee, Payel Prusty, Agnish Dev Mohan, Umesh Sane, Sanjay P |
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description | During flight maneuvers, insects exhibit compensatory head movements which are essential for stabilizing the visual field on their retina, reducing motion blur, and supporting visual self-motion estimation. In Diptera, such head movements are mediated via visual feedback from their compound eyes that detect retinal slip, as well as rapid mechanosensory feedback from their halteres – the modified hindwings that sense the angular rates of body rotations. Because non-Dipteran insects lack halteres, it is not known if mechanosensory feedback about body rotations plays any role in their head stabilization response. Diverse non-Dipteran insects are known to rely on visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback for flight control. In hawkmoths, for instance, reduction of antennal mechanosensory feedback severely compromises their ability to control flight. Similarly, when the head movements of freely flying moths are restricted, their flight ability is also severely impaired. The role of compensatory head movements as well as multimodal feedback in insect flight raises an interesting question: in insects that lack halteres, what sensory cues are required for head stabilization? Here, we show that in the nocturnal hawkmoth Daphnis nerii, compensatory head movements are mediated by combined visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback. We subjected tethered moths to open-loop body roll rotations under different lighting conditions, and measured their ability to maintain head angle in the presence or absence of antennal mechanosensory feedback. Our study suggests that head stabilization in moths is mediated primarily by visual feedback during roll movements at lower frequencies, whereas antennal mechanosensory feedback is required when roll occurs at higher frequency. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that control of head angle results from a multimodal feedback loop that integrates both visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback, albeit at different latencies. At adequate light levels, visual feedback is sufficient for head stabilization primarily at low frequencies of body roll. However, under dark conditions, antennal mechanosensory feedback is essential for the control of head movements at high frequencies of body roll. |
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spelling | pubmed-92590292022-07-07 Integration of visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback during head stabilization in hawkmoths Chatterjee, Payel Prusty, Agnish Dev Mohan, Umesh Sane, Sanjay P eLife Neuroscience During flight maneuvers, insects exhibit compensatory head movements which are essential for stabilizing the visual field on their retina, reducing motion blur, and supporting visual self-motion estimation. In Diptera, such head movements are mediated via visual feedback from their compound eyes that detect retinal slip, as well as rapid mechanosensory feedback from their halteres – the modified hindwings that sense the angular rates of body rotations. Because non-Dipteran insects lack halteres, it is not known if mechanosensory feedback about body rotations plays any role in their head stabilization response. Diverse non-Dipteran insects are known to rely on visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback for flight control. In hawkmoths, for instance, reduction of antennal mechanosensory feedback severely compromises their ability to control flight. Similarly, when the head movements of freely flying moths are restricted, their flight ability is also severely impaired. The role of compensatory head movements as well as multimodal feedback in insect flight raises an interesting question: in insects that lack halteres, what sensory cues are required for head stabilization? Here, we show that in the nocturnal hawkmoth Daphnis nerii, compensatory head movements are mediated by combined visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback. We subjected tethered moths to open-loop body roll rotations under different lighting conditions, and measured their ability to maintain head angle in the presence or absence of antennal mechanosensory feedback. Our study suggests that head stabilization in moths is mediated primarily by visual feedback during roll movements at lower frequencies, whereas antennal mechanosensory feedback is required when roll occurs at higher frequency. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that control of head angle results from a multimodal feedback loop that integrates both visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback, albeit at different latencies. At adequate light levels, visual feedback is sufficient for head stabilization primarily at low frequencies of body roll. However, under dark conditions, antennal mechanosensory feedback is essential for the control of head movements at high frequencies of body roll. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2022-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9259029/ /pubmed/35758646 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78410 Text en © 2022, Chatterjee et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Chatterjee, Payel Prusty, Agnish Dev Mohan, Umesh Sane, Sanjay P Integration of visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback during head stabilization in hawkmoths |
title | Integration of visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback during head stabilization in hawkmoths |
title_full | Integration of visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback during head stabilization in hawkmoths |
title_fullStr | Integration of visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback during head stabilization in hawkmoths |
title_full_unstemmed | Integration of visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback during head stabilization in hawkmoths |
title_short | Integration of visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback during head stabilization in hawkmoths |
title_sort | integration of visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback during head stabilization in hawkmoths |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9259029/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35758646 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78410 |
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