ArticleThe Journal of experimental biology2012
Flies dynamically anti-track, rather than ballistically escape, aversive odor during flight.
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- Odor tracking in flyingProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Odor tracking in flyingbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Shaping of olfactory responses by taste in a new assay for operant learning in Drosophila melanogaster.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Distinct neurogenetic mechanisms establish the same chemosensory valence state at different life stages in Caenorhabditis elegans.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- Olfactory navigation in arthropods.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Review
- DehydratediScience · 2023Article
- Active sensing in a dynamic olfactory world.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2022Article
- Spatial odor discrimination in the hawkmoth,Biology open · 2021Article
- Olfactory and Neuromodulatory Signals Reverse Visual Object Avoidance to Approach in Drosophila.Current biology : CB · 2019Article
- Celestial navigation inThe Journal of experimental biology · 2019Review
- Specific kinematics and motor-related neurons for aversive chemotaxis in Drosophila.Current biology : CB · 2013Article
- Drosophila tracks carbon dioxide in flight.Current biology : CB · 2013Article
- The Drosophila visual system: From neural circuits to behavior.Cell adhesion & migrationReview
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Abstract
Tracking distant odor sources is crucial to foraging, courtship and reproductive success for many animals including fish, flies and birds. Upon encountering a chemical plume in flight, Drosophila melanogaster integrates the spatial intensity gradient and temporal fluctuations over the two antennae, while simultaneously reducing the amplitude and frequency of rapid steering maneuvers, stabilizing the flight vector. There are infinite escape vectors away from a noxious source, in contrast to a single best tracking vector towards an attractive source. Attractive and aversive odors are segregated into parallel neuronal pathways in flies; therefore, the behavioral algorithms for avoidance may be categorically different from tracking. Do flies plot random ballistic or otherwise variable escape vectors? Or do they instead make use of temporally dynamic mechanisms for continuously and directly avoiding noxious odors in a manner similar to tracking appetitive ones? We examine this question using a magnetic tether flight simulator that permits free yaw movements, such that flies can actively orient within spatially defined odor plumes. We show that in-flight aversive flight behavior shares all of the key features of attraction such that flies continuously 'anti-track' the noxious source.
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