...://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary:   Drosophila melanogaster larvae prefer a soft food substrate. They can learn the softness of agarose gel and evaluate foods by balancing softness and sweetness. Genetic background affects the larval preference for softness. Mechanoreception...

...Kathryn A. Daltorio; Jessica L. Fox ABSTRACT Animals detect the force of gravity with multiple sensory organs, from subcutaneous receptors at body joints to specialized sensors like the vertebrate inner ear. The halteres of flies, specialized mechanoreceptive organs derived from hindwings...

... conspecifics, suggesting that mechanosensory signaling may be an important mode of communication during social interactions such as reproduction, aggression and parental care. Behavior Communication Lateral line Mechanoreception Multimodal signaling Teleost Animals use multiple sensory...

... line system during aggressive behaviors is unknown. The aim of this study was first to characterize the lateral line system of the African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni and second to determine the role of mechanoreception during agonistic interactions. The A. burtoni lateral line system is similar...

.... Threshold measurements for the humans were similar to those of the seal, demonstrating comparable tactile sensitivity for their structurally different mechanoreceptive systems. The thresholds measured for the harbor seal in this study were about 100 times more sensitive than previous in-air measures...

...Julia A. Sampson; Jim Duston; Roger P. Croll SUMMARY To investigate whether mechanoreception is used in non-visual feeding in larval striped bass ( Morone saxatilis ), the ontogeny of superficial neuromasts along the lateral line was described using the vital stain FM1-43FX and fluorescent...

... © 2012. 2012 Crustacea mechanoreception olfaction With the notable exception of the highly developed visual capacity in stomatopods and some semi-terrestrial grapsoid crabs, the survival of most aquatic crustaceans depends heavily upon information gleaned from the surrounding fluid...

... reward assessment and effective pollen transfer. 8 8 2010 © 2010. 2010 flower handling Lepidoptera nectar guides pollinator mechanoreception sensory ecology In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the use that animals make of multiple sensory modalities...

... for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 28 7 2010 © 2010. 2010 Crustacea antennules mechanoreception flicking fish lateral line In decapod crustaceans, the antennule has been reported as an olfactory organ with an important role in food searching, mating and agonistic...

... that is flexibly tailored to the varying topography of the terrain. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 19 10 2009 © 2010. honeybee Apis mellifera landing flight hover vision mechanoreception antennae The honeybee ( Apis mellifera L.) is a prime example...

... of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 electric fields high voltage sensory mechanoreception behaviour cockroach Animals show a variety of behavioural responses to electrical fields that are dependent upon the type of electric field and species involved. For example, Gymnotiform fish have the unique...

..., Nottulnerstrasse 25, D-48249 Buldern, Germany ‡ Present address: Tyska Skolan, Karlavägen 25, S-11431 Stockholm,Sweden 30 6 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 cnidocyte hair cell mechanoreception postsynaptic potential Nematocytes, the stinging cells...

...) The mean values from B,plotted in polar instead of Cartesian coordinates. cricket mechanoreception neural coding neural maps Animals within their sensory environments face the challenge of transducing and interpreting relevant sensory information in order to enact the appropriate...

... of orthopteroids (cricket and cockroaches) is one of the most sensitive in the animal kingdom ( Shimozawa et al.,2003 ). These insects bear on their cerci hundreds of mechanoreceptive filiform hairs that respond to the faintest air movements,down to 0.03 mm s -1 ( Shimozawa et al., 2003 ). Hair deflection...

... for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) * Present address: ARL - Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona,Tucson, AZ 85721, USA 11 7 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 mechanoreception prosternal organ insect neck posture ill-posed problem Most...

... oscillatory flows of flying predators only. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 16 11 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 sensory ecology mechanoreception natural predators Sensory organs are the interfaces between the central...

... organ excite DBNc1-2/c2-2. A contribution from other scapal mechanosensory afferents, however, cannot be excluded because N2B contains the axons of receptors in the scapal bristles. The origin of the mechanoreceptive input to DBNi2-1 remains unknown. Experiments were performed on adult Gryllus...

...John D. Pettigrew ABSTRACT I will briefly review the history of the bill sense of the platypus, a sophisticated combination of electroreception and mechanoreception that coordinates information about aquatic prey provided from the bill skin mechanoreceptors and electroreceptors, and provide...

...The Company of Biologists Limited 1997 olfaction mechanoreception Pavlovian conditioning stimulus intensity honeybee Apis mellifera carnica learning, memory salience The uncertainty in natural environments together with the high variability of environmental stimuli pose two...

...Dennis M. Higgs; Lee A. Fuiman ABSTRACT The importance of visual, mechanoreceptive and auditory inputs to escape responses was examined in larvae of the Atlantic menhaden ( Brevoortia tyrannus ) presented with a simulated predatory stimulus. Ontogenetic changes in the retina, superficial neuromasts...