The tethered flight technique as a tool for studying life-history strategies associated with migration in insects.

ABSTRACT: 1. Every year billions of insects engage in long-distance, seasonal mass migrations which have major consequences for agriculture, ecosystem services and insect-vectored diseases. Tracking this movement in the field is difficult, with mass migrations often occurring at high altitudes and over large spatial scales. 2. As such, tethered flight provides a valuable tool for studying the flight behaviour of insects, giving insights into flight propensity (e.g. distance, duration and velocity) and orientation under controlled laboratory settings. By experimentally manipulating a variety of environmental and physiological traits, numerous studies have used this technology to study the flight behaviour of migratory insects ranging in size from aphids to butterflies. Advances in functional genomics

SUBMITTER: Minter M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6055614 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature