ArticleOpen biology2016
A decision underlies phototaxis in an insect.
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- Innate visual attraction before, during and after escape from adverse substrates in carpenter ants.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Contrast and luminance dependence of target choice and visual orientation in walking stick insects.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Phototaxis is a satiety-dependent behavioral sequence in Hydra vulgaris.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Spatiotemporal dynamics of locomotor decisions inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Dose-effects in behavioural responses of moths to light in a controlled lab experiment.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A circadian-dependent preference for light displayed by Xenopus tadpoles is modulated by serotonin.iScience · 2022Article
- Scared of the dark? Phototaxis as behavioural immunity in a host-parasite system.Biology letters · 2022Article
- A unified mechanism for innate and learned visual landmark guidance in the insect central complex.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Algorithms underlying flexible phototaxis in larval zebrafish.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Sensitivity to expression levels underlies differential dominance of a putative null allele of the Drosophila tβh gene in behavioral phenotypes.PLoS biology · 2021Article
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- Computational animal welfare: towards cognitive architecture models of animal sentience, emotion and wellbeing.Royal Society open science · 2020Review
- Complexity and plasticity in honey bee phototactic behaviour.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Adult Movement Defects Associated with a CORL Mutation inG3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Article
- Disrupting flight increases sleep and identifies a novel sleep-promoting pathway inScience advances · 2020Article
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Abstract
Like a moth into the flame-phototaxis is an iconic example for innate preferences. Such preferences probably reflect evolutionary adaptations to predictable situations and have traditionally been conceptualized as hard-wired stimulus-response links. Perhaps for that reason, the century-old discovery of flexibility in Drosophila phototaxis has received little attention. Here, we report that across several different behavioural tests, light/dark preference tested in walking is dependent on various aspects of flight. If we temporarily compromise flying ability, walking photopreference reverses concomitantly. Neuronal activity in circuits expressing dopamine and octopamine, respectively, plays a differential role in photopreference, suggesting a potential involvement of these biogenic amines in this case of behavioural flexibility. We conclude that flies monitor their ability to fly, and that flying ability exerts a fundamental effect on action selection in Drosophila This work suggests that even behaviours which appear simple and hard-wired comprise a value-driven decision-making stage, negotiating the external situation with the animal's internal state, before an action is selected.
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