Affiliation:
1. Department of Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA
Abstract
SUMMARYFruit flies respond to panoramic retinal patterns of visual expansion with robust steering maneuvers directed away from the focus of expansion to avoid collisions and maintain an upwind flight posture. Panoramic rotation elicits comparatively weak syndirectional steering maneuvers, which also maintain visual stability. Full-field optic flow patterns like expansion and rotation are elicited by distinct flight maneuvers such as body translation during straight flight or body rotation during hovering, respectively. Recent analyses suggest that under some experimental conditions the rotation optomotor response reflects the linear sum of different expansion response components. Are expansion and rotation-mediated visual stabilization responses part of a single optomotor response subserved by a neural circuit that is differentially stimulated by the two flow fields, or rather do the two behavioral responses reflect two distinct control systems? Guided by the principle that the properties of neural circuits are revealed in the behaviors they mediate, we systematically varied the spatial, temporal and contrast properties of expansion and rotation stimuli, and quantified the time course and amplitude of optomotor responses during tethered flight. Our results support the conclusion that expansion and rotation optomotor responses are indeed two separate reflexes, which draw from the same system of elementary motion detectors, but are likely mediated by separate pre-motor circuits having different spatial integration properties, low-pass characteristics and contrast sensitivity.
Publisher
The Company of Biologists
Subject
Insect Science,Molecular Biology,Animal Science and Zoology,Aquatic Science,Physiology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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