...://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 microscopy...

... © 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...

... to predict a difficulty to learn how to better exploit those models, even when several nectaries can be emptied. This aspect is very similar to what was previously found studying the role of mechanoreception in flower inspection learning (Goyret and Raguso, 2006). The prompt finding of the nectary provides...

... 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...

... ([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 an insect that relies on flight for foraging, and hence for survival of the colony. The majority...

... 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...

... 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 (cnidocytes...

...-mail: [email protected]) 28 3 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 cricket mechanoreception neural coding neural maps Our general concept of the functional `engineering design' of the cercal system, derived from all of the work that has been done on this system...

...). The Principles of Insect Physiology . New York: Halsted. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]) 10 8 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 European wood cricket functional morphology mechanoreception population coding model sensory...

... 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...

..., the properties described here suggest an involvement in the perception of objects in the path of the cricket. *e-mail: [email protected] 18 4 2001 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2001 2001 insect cricket descending brain interneurone antenna mechanoreception vision...

...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...

... that invertebrate and vertebrate learning at the behavioural level follow rather similar rules (for further details of overshadowing in invertebrates, see Bitterman, 1996 ; Sahley et al . 1981). 12 12 1996 ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1997 olfaction mechanoreception Pavlovian...

...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...