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J Exp Biol

Title:		Olfactory navigation in aquatic gastropods
Author(s):		Wyeth RC;
Address:		"Biology Department, St Francis Xavier University, 2321 Notre Dame Avenue, Antigonish, NS, Canada B2G 2W5 rwyeth@stfx.ca"
Journal Title:		J Exp Biol
Year:		2019
Volume:		20190206
Issue:		Pt Suppl 1
Page Number:		-
DOI:		10.1242/jeb.185843
ISSN/ISBN:		1477-9145 (Electronic) 0022-0949 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Gastropod diversity is substantial in marine and freshwater habitats, and many aquatic slugs and snails use olfactory cues to guide their navigation behaviour. Examples include finding prey or avoiding predators based on kairomones, or finding potential mates using pheromones. Here, I review the diversity of navigational behaviours studied across the major aquatic taxa of gastropods. I then synthesize evidence for the different theoretical navigation strategies the animals may use. It is likely that gastropods regularly use either chemotaxis or odour-gated rheotaxis (or both) during olfactory-based navigation. Finally, I collate the patchwork of research conducted on relevant proximate mechanisms that could produce navigation behaviours. Although the tractability of several gastropod species for neurophysiological experimentation has generated some valuable insight into how turning behaviour is triggered by contact chemoreception, there remain many substantial gaps in our understanding for how navigation relative to more distant odour sources is controlled in gastropods. These gaps include little information on the chemoreceptors and mechanoreceptors (for detecting flow) found in the peripheral nervous system and the central (or peripheral) processing circuits that integrate that sensory input. In contrast, past studies do provide information on motor neurons that control the effectors that produce crawling (both forward locomotion and turning). Thus, there is plenty of scope for further research on olfactory-based navigation, exploiting the tractability of gastropods for neuroethology to better understand how the nervous system processes chemosensory input to generate movement towards or away from distant odour sources"
Keywords:		Animals Chemotaxis Gastropoda/*physiology *Olfactory Perception Rheology *Smell *Spatial Navigation Chemoreception Chemosensation Crawling Mollusca Sensory integration;
Notes:		"MedlineWyeth, Russell C eng Review England 2019/02/08 J Exp Biol. 2019 Feb 6; 222(Pt Suppl 1):jeb185843. doi: 10.1242/jeb.185843"