TY  - JOUR
AB  - In tethered flying houseflies (Musca domestica), the yaw torque produced by the wings is accompanied by postural changes of the abdomen and hindlegs. In free flight, these body movements would jointly lead to turning manoeuvres of the animal. By recording the yaw torque together with the lateral deflections of either the abdomen or the hindlegs, it is shown that these motor output systems act in a highly synergistic way during two types of visual orientation behavior, compensatory optomotor turning reactions and orientation turns elicited by moving objects. This high degree of coordination is particularly conspicuous for the pathway activated by moving objects. Here, orientation responses either may be induced or may fail to be generated always simultaneously in all three motor output systems. This suggests that the pathway mediating orientation turns towards objects is gated before it segregates into the respective motor control systems of the wings, the abdomen and the hindlegs.
DA  - 1991
DO  - 10.1007/BF00215860
KW  - Sensory reception
KW  - Neural coordination
KW  - Behavior
KW  - Physiology
LA  - eng
IS  - 2
M2  - 127
PY  - 1991
SN  - 0340-7594
SP  - 127-134
T2  - Journal of Comparative Physiology, A: Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology
TI  - On the coordination of motor output during visual flight control of flies
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-17741401
Y2  - 2024-11-24T16:56:21
ER  -