Finding a path: local search behavior of Drosophila larvae.

ABSTRACT: Orientation and navigation are essential features of animals living in changing environments. Typically, animals integrate a variety of allothetic and idiothetic cues to achieve their navigational goals. Allothetic cues, such as visual or chemical landmarks from the environment, provide an external frame of reference. In contrast, idiothetic cues are based on internal proprioceptive feedback and internal copies of motor commands. When Drosophila larvae are exposed briefly to a Teflon container holding a food stimulus, they show a characteristic behavior as soon as the container is removed: they briefly crawl away from the detected resource, remain in its vicinity and then return to the area where they experienced the earlier stimulus. We quantified this behavior with respect to the chemose

SUBMITTER: Kromp J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12669832 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature