... suggest that, like the whiskers of pinnipeds, the macrovibrissae of terrestrial mammals are multimodal sensors – able to sense both airflow and touch – and that they may play a particularly important role in anemotaxis. Fig. 2. Schematic of bending magnitude (θ), quantified as the angular...

... in detection of Coriolis forces in moths and fruit flies ( Sane et al., 2007 ; Budick et al., 2008 ). Thus a mechanism relying transiently on non-visual cues would be superimposed on optomotor anemotaxis, only briefly relieving the insect from using optomotor cues. The turn would to some degree resemble...

... antenna insect anemotaxis Johnston's organ Drosophila melanogaster is a useful model organism for studying olfaction, in part because it offers powerful genetic tools for manipulating neural activity in the olfactory system ( Holmes et al., 2007 ; Luo et al., 2008 ; Olsen and Wilson, 2008...

... address: Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 19700 Helix Drive, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA 6 8 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 Drosophila insect flight search anemotaxis flight control Johnston's organ mechanoreceptor sensor fusion...

... mechanisms. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 26 4 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 Drosophila insect free flight odor olfaction search chemotaxis anemotaxis flight control The responses of flying insects to attractive...

... by Company of Biologists 2000 desert ant Cataglyphis fortis olfaction orientation anemotaxis foraging. In most ant species, olfactory cues are essential for orientation outside the nest, in the context of foraging, colony dispersal or adverse colony interactions. Pheromone trails lead...

... very quickly and erratically in both direction and velocity. 05 05 1995 © The Company of Biologists Limited 1995 wind-orientation anemotaxis Bode plot Necrophorus humator hot-wire anemometer Many organisms depend to a great extent on information about currents...