Search and anemotactic orientation of cockroaches

Bell, William J.; Kramer, Ernst

doi:10.1016/0022-1910(79)90112-4

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“…When the wind speed increased above 20·cm·s -1 they turned and walked with the wind direction, downwind (Bell and Kramer, 1979). These results demonstrated that walking cockroaches show a positive or negative anemotactic response depending on the wind speed.…”

Section: Odor-modulated Orientation To Windmentioning

confidence: 68%

“…Previous work on the orientation of walking with respect to the wind direction showed that P. americana males walking on a locomotion compensator preferentially turned into the wind and walked upwind at wind speeds below 20·cm·s -1 (Bell and Kramer, 1979). When the wind speed increased above 20·cm·s -1 they turned and walked with the wind direction, downwind (Bell and Kramer, 1979).…”

Section: Odor-modulated Orientation To Windmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Odor-modulated orientation in walking male cockroachesPeriplaneta americana, and the effects of odor plumes of different structure

Willis

Avondet

2005

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Section: Odor-modulated Orientation To Windmentioning

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Odor-modulated orientation in walking male cockroachesPeriplaneta americana, and the effects of odor plumes of different structure

Willis

Avondet

2005

Journal of Experimental Biology

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“…of the test animal, thus enabling careful and controlled manipulations of its direct environment. Locomotion compensators have been used extensively in studies on arthropod orientation behavior (Bell & Kramer, 1979;Kramer, 1975Kramer, , 1976McMahon & Guerin, 2000;Thiery & Visser, 1986). The only limitation of the currently avail-able locomotion compensators is the need to mount small reflector beads on the back of the test animal for adequate observation of the animal by camera and software.…”

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State-dependent and odor-mediated anemotactic responses of a micro-arthropod on a novel type of locomotion compensator

Tilborg

Pers²,

Roessingh

et al. 2003

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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A novel type of locomotion compensator was designed and tested for its use in orientation behavior experiments with a predatory mite. In this apparatus, displacements of the test animal in the twodimensional plane are recorded using video equipment and a servosphere that keeps the animal in focus. The x and y displacements are registeredusing two rotation encoders and are compensated using a pair of servo-motors, in such a way that the animal is always positioned on top of the sphere, yet moves freely. Well-fed and starved predators were tested for their responses to (1) still air, (2) a stimulus-free air flow, (3) an air flow with odors from uninfested Lima bean leaves, and (4) an air flow with odors from Lima bean leaves infested by plant-feeding mites, the prey of the predatory mites. Anemotactic responses of adult Phytoseiulus persimilis females were feeding state dependent. Well-fed predators moved downwind under Treatments 1-3 but moved neither up-nor downwind in the presence of odors from infested plants (Treatment 4). Starved predators moved upwind under all treatments. These results are in agreement with those of earlier studies in a wind tunnel, and therefore, the new type of locomotion compensator (LC-100) offers an excellent method for studying the orientation behavior of micro-arthropods.

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“…The PD-control prediction from Cowan et al (2006) cannot exclude the existence of a more complicated controller. Alternatively, acceleration may be irrelevant for wall following and may be used in other behaviors involving mechanosensation such as slower, active tactile exploration during object localization Toh, 2000, 2001) or texture discrimination (Comer et al, 2003;Comer and Baba, 2011) and anemotaxis (Bell and Kramer, 1979). Indeed, arthropod antennae are multifunctional sensory structures used in a variety of behaviors (Staudacher et al, 2005) where touch information can adjust the motor program in a context-dependent manner (e.g.…”

Section: Tuning Of Individual Mechanoreceptors By Latency and Temporamentioning

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Sensory processing within antenna enables rapid implementation of feedback control for high-speed running maneuvers

Mongeau

Sponberg

Miller

2015

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Animals are remarkably stable during high-speed maneuvers. As the speed of locomotion increases, neural bandwidth and processing delays can limit the ability to achieve and maintain stable control. Processing the information of sensory stimuli into a control signal within the sensor itself could enable rapid implementation of whole-body feedback control during high-speed locomotion. Here, we show that processing in antennal afferents is sufficient to act as the control signal for a fast sensorimotor loop. American cockroaches Periplaneta americana use their antennae to mediate escape running by tracking vertical surfaces such as walls. A control theoretic model of wall following predicts that stable control is possible if the animal can compute wall position (P) and velocity, its derivative (D). Previous whole-nerve recordings from the antenna during simulated turning experiments demonstrated a population response consistent with P and D encoding, and suggested that the response was synchronized with the timing of a turn executed while wall following. Here, we record extracellularly from individual mechanoreceptors distributed along the antenna and show that these receptors encode D and have distinct latencies and filtering properties. The summed output of these receptors can be used as a control signal for rapid steering maneuvers. The D encoding within the antenna in addition to the temporal filtering properties and P dependence of the population of afferents support a sensory-encoding notion from control theory. Our findings support the notion that peripheral sensory processing can enable rapid implementation of whole-body feedback control during rapid running maneuvers.

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Search and anemotactic orientation of cockroaches

Cited by 97 publications

References 19 publications

Odor-modulated orientation in walking male cockroachesPeriplaneta americana, and the effects of odor plumes of different structure

Odor-modulated orientation in walking male cockroachesPeriplaneta americana, and the effects of odor plumes of different structure

State-dependent and odor-mediated anemotactic responses of a micro-arthropod on a novel type of locomotion compensator

Sensory processing within antenna enables rapid implementation of feedback control for high-speed running maneuvers

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