昆虫导航：后退行走揭示的运动控制。

Insect Navigation: What Backward Walking Reveals about the Control of Movement.

机构信息

Psychology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK.

School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK.

出版信息

Curr Biol. 2017 Feb 20;27(4):R141-R144. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.037.

DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.037

PMID:28222290

Abstract

Ants often walk backwards to drag large prey to their nest. New experiments show how they can use information from retinotopically encoded views to follow visual routes even while moving backwards. The mechanisms enabling ants to decouple body orientation and the control of travel direction are likely to be shared with other, flying, insects.

摘要

蚂蚁经常倒退着走，以便将大型猎物拖回巢穴。新的实验表明，它们如何能够利用来自视网膜方向编码视图的信息，即使在后退时也能沿着视觉路线行进。使蚂蚁能够解耦身体方向和行进方向控制的机制可能与其他飞行昆虫共享。