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ArticleThe Journal of experimental biology2022

The interplay of directional information provided by unpolarised and polarised light in the heading direction network of the diurnal dung beetle Kheper lamarcki.

Lana Khaldy, James J Foster, Ayse Yilmaz, Gregor Belušič, Yakir Gagnon, Claudia Tocco, Marcus J Byrne, Marie Dacke

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Article in The Journal of experimental biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Mechanisms of spectral orientation in a diurnal dung beetle.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Lana KhaldyLund Vision Group, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35, 223 62 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-2761-338X
James J FosterZoology II, Biozentrum, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4444-2375
Ayse YilmazLund Vision Group, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35, 223 62 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-1584-8800
Gregor BelušičDepartment of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Yakir GagnonLund Vision Group, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35, 223 62 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-2512-4520
Claudia ToccoLund Vision Group, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35, 223 62 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-3144-2365
Marcus J ByrneSchool of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witswatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-5155-2599
Marie DackeLund Vision Group, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35, 223 62 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-6444-7483
Lund University · SEUniversity of Ljubljana · SIUniversity of the Witwatersrand · ZAUniversity of Würzburg · DE

Funding

European Research Council 817535-Ultimate-COMPASS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The sun is the most prominent source of directional information in the heading direction network of the diurnal, ball-rolling dung beetle Kheper lamarcki. If this celestial body is occluded from the beetle's field of view, the distribution of the relative weight between the directional cues that remain shifts in favour of the celestial pattern of polarised light. In this study, we continue to explore the interplay of the sun and polarisation pattern as directional cues in the heading direction network of K. lamarcki. By systematically altering the intensity and degree of the two cues, we effectively change the relative reliability as they appear to the dung beetle. The response of the beetle to these modifications allows us to closely examine how the weighting relationship of these two sources of directional information is influenced and altered in the heading direction network of the beetle. We conclude that the process by which K. lamarcki relies on directional information is very likely done based on Bayesian reasoning, where directional information conveying the highest certainty at a particular moment is afforded the greatest weight.

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ColeopteraAnimalsBayes TheoremBehavior, AnimalCuesReproducibility of ResultsCompassDegree of polarisationDirectional cuesHeading direction networkNavigationWeighting

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PMID35037692
PMCPMC8918814
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