Insect flight: Flies use a throttle to steer

Tyson L. Hedrick; Bradley H. Dickerson

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.043

Insect flight: Flies use a throttle to steer

Tyson L. Hedrick, Bradley H. Dickerson

Princeton Neuroscience Institute

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Abstract

A new study of flight control in Drosophila using neurogenetic methods and a virtual reality flight arena has revealed a group of descending neurons that fully activate the flight motor and steer the fly by independent regulation of the left and right wings.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	R218-R220
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	32
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.043
State	Published - Mar 14 2022

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Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)

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Insect flight: Flies use a throttle to steer

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