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ArticleeLife2019

Optimal searching behaviour generated intrinsically by the central pattern generator for locomotion.

David W Sims, Nicolas E Humphries, Nan Hu, Violeta Medan, Jimena Berni

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Article in eLife, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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20 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

David W Sims *The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth, United Kingdom.
Nicolas E Humphries *The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-3741-1594
Nan HuDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Violeta MedanDepartamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Jimena Berni *Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5068-1372

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Efficient searching for resources such as food by animals is key to their survival. It has been proposed that diverse animals from insects to sharks and humans adopt searching patterns that resemble a simple Lévy random walk, which is theoretically optimal for 'blind foragers' to locate sparse, patchy resources. To test if such patterns are generated intrinsically, or arise via environmental interactions, we tracked free-moving

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AnimalsApoptosisAppetitive BehaviorBrainCentral Pattern GeneratorsCuesDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsDynaminsExploratory BehaviorFeeding BehaviorLarvaLocomotionProbabilityTemperatureDrosophila ProteinsDynaminsshi protein, Drosophilacentral pattern generatorD. melanogasterecologyexplorationlevy walklocomotionneuroscience

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PMID31674911
PMCPMC6879304

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