Insect flight: Flies use a throttle to steer.

Autor: Hedrick TL; Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: thedrick@bio.unc.edu., Dickerson BH; Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Current biology : CB [Curr Biol] 2022 Mar 14; Vol. 32 (5), pp. R218-R220.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.043
Abstrakt: A new study of flight control in Drosophila using neurogenetic methods and a virtual reality flight arena has revealed a group of descending neurons that fully activate the flight motor and steer the fly by independent regulation of the left and right wings.
Competing Interests: Declaration of interests The authors declare no competing interests.
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Databáze: MEDLINE