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SUBMITTER: Kane EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3791751 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kane Elizabeth A EA Gershow Marc M Afonso Bruno B Larderet Ivan I Klein Mason M Carter Ashley R AR de Bivort Benjamin L BL Sprecher Simon G SG Samuel Aravinthan D T AD
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130916 40
The avoidance of light by fly larvae is a classic paradigm for sensorimotor behavior. Here, we use behavioral assays and video microscopy to quantify the sensorimotor structure of phototaxis using the Drosophila larva. Larval locomotion is composed of sequences of runs (periods of forward movement) that are interrupted by abrupt turns, during which the larva pauses and sweeps its head back and forth, probing local light information to determine the direction of the successive run. All phototacti ...[more]