VISUAL COURSE CONTROL OF ESCAPE RESPONSES IN THE COCKROACH BLABERUS-CRANIIFER - ROLE OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ORIENTATION INFORMATION
VISUAL COURSE CONTROL OF ESCAPE RESPONSES IN THE COCKROACH BLABERUS-CRANIIFER - ROLE OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ORIENTATION INFORMATION
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-3032.1983.tb00341.x
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
SURBER, JL
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作者:
BELL, WJ;TOBIN, TR;SURBER, JL
Nymphs of B. craniifer were exposed to a point source of light while walking on a servosphere apparatus. The initial response was a brief stop followed by running at a rate exceeding that in darkness. Their course was away from the light source and their direction became closer to 180.degree. away from the light, as the light source approached the horizontal. The straightness of the course was controlled by both internal and external orientation information. If the source was overhead, the course was more circuitous than with the directional light. Following a temporal switch from darkness to light, abrupt sharp turns of > 90.degree. led the animals back into a zone of darkness. Stopping occurs immediately after the onset or offset of the light stimulus, but the duration of stops does not seem to be correlated with the time since a previous stop, nor with the length of the run prior to a stop. Responses to a a sudden onset of a light stimulus seem to represent adaptations for relocating a zone of darkness and for predator avoidance when a cockroach is disturbed during its photophase.