The Olfactory Guidance of Flying Insects. IV. Drosophila

Kellogg, Forest E.; Frizel, D. E.; Wright, R. H.

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“…melanogaster, as suggested by the anecdotal studies of Wright and colleagues, respond in an apparently qualitatively different fashion from several moth species (besides, perhaps, C. cautella as described above), when exposed to a homogeneous odor plume (Kellogg et al, 1962;Wright, 1964). Under that condition, D. melanogaster consistently exhibited the straightest upwind trajectories that we observed in any treatment, and thus seem to depart from the Baker model for moth flight in that flies' upwind response to an attractive odor does not adapt to constant stimulation in the short term.…”

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“…A fairly wide range for this parameter has been reported in the moth literature, with a shift to cross-wind flight within 150-220·ms in G. molesta (Baker and Haynes, 1987), 490·ms in Manduca sexta (Willis and Arbas, 1991), 710·ms in C. cautella (Mafra-Neto and Cardé, 1996) or about 1·s in Lymantria dispar (Kuenen and Cardé, 1994). Kellogg et al even suggested a value of about 100·ms for D. melanogaster, based on their anecdotal results (Kellogg et al, 1962). Despite this variability in the timing of initiation, it is interesting that this flight maneuver is shared with the phylogenetically distant Lepidoptera and implies perhaps that the problem of olfactory search is sufficiently universal to often rely on the same search algorithms.…”

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“…1982; Kellogg et al, 1962;Wright, 1964). Anecdotal reports have suggested that the flight behavior of D. melanogaster may differ substantially from that reported for moths in that sustained upwind flight does not seem to require intermittent stimulation (Wright, 1964).…”

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Free-flight responses ofDrosophila melanogasterto attractive odors

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Dickinson

2006

Journal of Experimental Biology

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SUMMARY Many motile organisms localize the source of attractive odorants by following plumes upwind. In the case of D. melanogaster, little is known of how individuals alter their flight trajectories after encountering and losing a plume of an attractive odorant. We have characterized the three-dimensional flight behavior of D. melanogaster in a wind tunnel under a variety of odor conditions. In the absence of olfactory cues, hungry flies initiate flight and display anemotactic orientation. Following contact with a narrow ribbon plume of an attractive odor, flies reduce their crosswind velocity while flying faster upwind, resulting in a surge directed toward the odor source. Following loss of odor contact due to plume truncation, flies frequently initiate a stereotyped crosswind casting response, a behavior rarely observed in a continuous odor plume. Similarly, within a homogeneous odor cloud, flies move fast while maintaining an upwind heading. These results indicate both similarities and differences between the behavior of D. melanogaster and the responses of male moths to pheromone plumes,suggesting possible differences in underlying neural mechanisms.

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Free-flight responses ofDrosophila melanogasterto attractive odors

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Dickinson

2006

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“…Anecdotal evidence suggests that flying and walking Drosophila produce zigzag movements when approaching an odor, suggestive of cross-wind movement [19]. However, Drosophila can fly upwind in both continuous and pulsed odor streams [20,21], unlike moths which do not fly upwind in a continuous stream. It has also been reported that tethered flying Drosophila will orient into continuous plumes, or plumes pulsed at high frequencies, but not plumes pulsed at low frequencies [22].…”

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Smelling on the fly: sensory cues and strategies for olfactory navigation in Drosophila

Gaudry

Nagel

Wilson

2012

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

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Navigating toward (or away from) a remote odor source is a challenging problem that requires integrating olfactory information with visual and mechanosensory cues. Drosophila melanogaster is a useful organism for studying the neural mechanisms of these navigation behaviors. There is a wealth of genetic tools in this organism, as well as a history of inventive behavioral experiments. There is also a large and growing literature in Drosophila on the neural coding of olfactory, visual, and mechanosensory stimuli. Here we review recent progress in understanding how these stimulus modalities are encoded in the Drosophila nervous system. We also discuss what strategies a fly might use to navigate in a natural olfactory landscape while making use of all these sources of sensory information. We emphasize that Drosophila are likely to switch between multiple strategies for olfactory navigation, depending on the availability of various sensory cues. Finally, we highlight future research directions that will be important in understanding the neural circuits that underlie these behaviors.

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“…(1984). The olfactometer tests mainly for optomotor anemotaxis, which is a mechanism whereby Drosophila respond to distant plant odours (Kellogg, Frizel and Wright, 1962;Shorey, 1976).…”

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Habitat marking: Parallel genetic divergence in two Drosophila species

Parsons

Hoffmann

1985

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Male populations of both the sibling species D. melanogasterand D. simulans are preferentially attracted to sites marked by the residual odours of females derived from their own geographic populations (Melbourne vs. Townsville), when cultured under uniform laboratory conditions. This indicates genetic variation for olfactory response to female odours. Parallel habitat marking therefore occurs at the intraspecific level in these two species, suggesting the possibility of an association with resource divergence.Significant and repeatable habitat marking was found for two isofemale strains from the Melbourne population of D. melanogaster. This means that this trait is potentially amenable to genetic analysis. I NTRO D U CTI ONClosely related Drosophila species, e.g., the melanogaster subgroup, can be distinguished by ecologically important characteristics that can ultimately be related to the climate of the typical habitats of these species (Parsons, 1983a;Lachaise, 1983). Characteristics so far studied include resistance to heat, desiccation, and cold, the utilisation of resources in the wild, and the utilisation of the fermentation products ethanol and acetic acid under laboratory conditions. This approach can be taken to the intraspecific level (Parsons, 1983a) In addition to adaptation to climate and resources, flies may differ in their habitat preferences.For example, there are inter and intraspecific differences in olfactory attraction of flies to chemicals from feeding and breeding resources (West, 1961; Hoffmann, Parsons, and Nielsen, 1984 (Parsons, 1983a for references). Populations were initiated by a minimum of 60 females from each location, and maintained on a sucrose dead yeast agar medium by mass transfer. The first trial was carried out with flies three generations removed from the field, and flies for subsequent trials came from generations immediately following. Five trials per species were carried out.Following these experiments, five trials were carried out on two isofemale strains of D.

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The Olfactory Guidance of Flying Insects. IV. Drosophila

Cited by 66 publications

References 2 publications

Free-flight responses ofDrosophila melanogasterto attractive odors

Free-flight responses ofDrosophila melanogasterto attractive odors

Smelling on the fly: sensory cues and strategies for olfactory navigation in Drosophila

Habitat marking: Parallel genetic divergence in two Drosophila species

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