Insect Flight: Navigating with Smooth Turns and Quick Saccades

Jamie Theobald

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.002

Insect Flight: Navigating with Smooth Turns and Quick Saccades

Curr Biol. 2017 Oct 23;27(20):R1125-R1127. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.002.

Author

Jamie Theobald¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA. Electronic address: theobald@fiu.edu.

PMID: 29065297
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.002

Abstract

A new study shows that flying Drosophila prefer steady turns when following moving panoramas, but switch overwhelmingly to quick, intermittent body saccades when following narrow bars. This suggests insect brains trigger distinct flight patterns to stabilize gaze for different tasks.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila*
Flight, Animal
Saccades*