ArticleBiology letters2015
Kinematic diversity suggests expanded roles for fly halteres.
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- Halteres stabilize standing posture in crane flies.Current biology : CB · 2026Article
- Automated insect detection and biomass monitoring via AI and electrical field sensor technology.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Morphology-based classification of the flying capacities of aquatic insects: A first attempt.Current zoology · 2024Article
- Asynchronous haltere input drives specific wing and head movements inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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- Haltere and visual inputs sum linearly to predict wing (but not gaze) motor output in tethered flyingProceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Takeoff diversity in Diptera.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Developmental Robustness: The Haltere Case inFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Article
- Representation of Haltere Oscillations and Integration with Visual Inputs in the Fly Central Complex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Single mechanosensory neurons encode lateral displacements using precise spike timing and thresholds.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- The Brain Compass: A Perspective on How Self-Motion Updates the Head Direction Cell Attractor.Neuron · 2018Review
- Coupled symmetric and asymmetric circuits underlying spatial orientation in fruit flies.Nature communications · 2017Article
- Mechanosensation is evolutionarily tuned to locomotor mechanics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
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Abstract
The halteres of flies are mechanosensory organs that provide information about body rotations during flight. We measured haltere movements in a range of fly taxa during free walking and tethered flight. We find a diversity of wing-haltere phase relationships in flight, with higher variability in more ancient families and less in more derived families. Diverse haltere movements were observed during free walking and were correlated with phylogeny. We predicted that haltere removal might decrease behavioural performance in those flies that move them during walking and provide evidence that this is the case. Our comparative approach reveals previously unknown diversity in haltere movements and opens the possibility of multiple functional roles for halteres in different fly behaviours.
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