Fine-grained descending control of steering in walking Drosophila

HH Yang, BE Brezovec, LS Capdevila, QX Vanderbeck… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Locomotion involves rhythmic limb movement patterns that originate in circuits outside the
brain. Purposeful locomotion requires descending commands from the brain, but we do not …

Miniature linear and split-belt treadmills reveal mechanisms of adaptive motor control in walking Drosophila

BG Pratt, SYJ Lee, GM Chou, JC Tuthill - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
To navigate complex environments, walking animals must detect and overcome unexpected
perturbations. One technical challenge when investigating adaptive locomotion is …

Visual and motor signatures of locomotion dynamically shape a population code for feature detection in Drosophila

MH Turner, A Krieger, MM Pang, TR Clandinin - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Natural vision is dynamic: as an animal moves, its visual input changes dramatically. How
can the visual system reliably extract local features from an input dominated by self …

Long-timescale anti-directional rotation in Drosophila optomotor behavior

O Mano, M Choi, R Tanaka, MS Creamer, NCB Matos… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Locomotor movements cause visual images to be displaced across the eye, a retinal slip
that is counteracted by stabilizing reflexes in many animals. In insects, optomotor turning …

How do neonicotinoids affect social bees? Linking proximate mechanisms to ecological impacts

JD Crall, NE Raine - Advances in Insect Physiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Neonicotinoid insecticides are among the most widely used agrochemicals globally. Given
the critical importance of bees for biodiversity, crop productivity, and human health, recent …

A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs

MM Pang, F Chen, M **e, S Druckmann, TR Clandinin… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
A critical goal of vision is to detect changes in light intensity, even when these changes are
blurred by the spatial resolution of the eye and the motion of the animal. Here, we describe a …

[PDF][PDF] Patterns of Population Structure and Introgression Among Recently Differentiated Drosophila melanogaster Populations

JM Coughlan, AJ Dagilis… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Despite a century of genetic analysis, the evolutionary processes that have generated the
patterns of exceptional genetic and phenotypic variation in the model organism Drosophila …

Interaction and integration among behaviors of adult Drosophila in nature

J Silva-López, P Godoy, L Jara, R Godoy-Herrera - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Living in environments whose ecologies vary in periods as short as 24 h is a challenge for
animals as Drosophila species that inhabit pear and apple orchards. These orchards have …

Inhibitory control of locomotor statistics in walking Drosophila

HC Gattuso, KA van Hassel, JD Freed, KM Nuñez… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In order to forage for food, many animals regulate not only specific limb movements but the
statistics of locomotor behavior over time, switching between long-range dispersal and …

[HTML][HTML] A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila deblurs visual inputs

MM Pang, F Chen, M **e, S Druckmann, TR Clandinin… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A critical goal of vision is to detect changes in light intensity, even when these changes are
blurred by the spatial resolution of the eye and the motion of the animal. Here we describe a …