Cataglyphis meets Drosophila. (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wehner, Rüdiger
• Is Part Of: Journal of neurogenetics. Volume 34:Number 1(2020)
• Page Start: 184
• Page End: 188
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: Troy Zars -- Drosophila -- Cataglyphis -- neuroethology; Neurogenetics -- Periodicals; 616.80442
• DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2020.1713117
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0167-7063

Abstract

Abstract: In Cataglyphis and Drosophila – in desert ants and fruit flies – research on visually guided behavior took different paths. While work in Cataglyphis started in the field and covered the animal's wide navigational repertoire, in Drosophila the initial focus was on a particular kind of visual control behavior scrutinized within the confines of the laboratory arena, before research concentrated on more advanced behaviors. In recent times, these multi-pronged approaches in flies and ants increasingly converge, both conceptually and methodologically, and thus lay the ground for combined neuroethological efforts. In spite of the obvious differences in the behavioral repertoire of these two groups of insects, likely commonalities in the navigational processes and underlying neuronal circuitries are increasingly coming to the fore.