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Title:Pheromone source location by flying moths: a supplementary non-anemotactic mechanism
Author(s):Baker TC; Kuenen LP;
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Journal Title:Science
Year:1982
Volume:216
Issue:4544
Page Number:424 - 427
DOI: 10.1126/science.216.4544.424
ISSN/ISBN:0036-8075 (Print) 0036-8075 (Linking)
Abstract:"After the wind was stopped in an insect flight tunnel, male oriental fruit moths continued to fly in zigzag fashion along a stationary pheromone plume. Their lateral excursions from the time-averaged pheromone plume were no greater without wind than in wind of 38 centimeters per second. When the pheromone plume was removed and the wind stopped, males initiated wider track reversals when they reached the pheromone-free area in still air than they had made while in the pheromone plume. This non-anemotactic mechanism of maintaining plume contact-possibly a special kind of klinotaxis-when coupled with the orthokinetic retinal velocity of apparent ground pattern motion, allowed males to reach the pheromone source area from 1 to 2 meters away without wind"
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Notes:"PubMed-not-MEDLINEBaker, T C Kuenen, L P eng 1982/04/23 Science. 1982 Apr 23; 216(4544):424-7. doi: 10.1126/science.216.4544.424"

 
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