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SUBMITTER: Geurten BR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4205811 | biostudies-other | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Geurten Bart R H BR Jähde Philipp P Corthals Kristina K Göpfert Martin C MC
Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience 20141022
Drosophila melanogaster structures its optic flow during flight by interspersing translational movements with abrupt body rotations. Whether these "body saccades" are accompanied by steering movements of the head is a matter of debate. By tracking single flies moving freely in an arena, we now discovered that walking Drosophila also perform saccades. Movement analysis revealed that the flies separate rotational from translational movements by quickly turning their bodies by 15 degrees within a t ...[more]