There are nearly a million known species of flying insects and 13 000 species of flying warm-
blooded vertebrates, including mammals, birds and bats. While in flight, their wings not only …

A firm understanding of how fruit flies hover has emerged over the past two decades, and
recent work has focused on the aerodynamic, biomechanical and neurobiological …

Each time a locomoting fly turns, the visual image sweeps over the retina and generates a
motion stimulus. Classic behavioral experiments suggested that flies use active neural …

Background For a fruit fly, locating fermenting fruit where it can feed, find mates, and lay
eggs is an essential and difficult task requiring the integration of olfactory and visual cues …

An approaching predator and self-motion toward an object can generate similar looming
patterns on the retina, but these situations demand different rapid responses. How central …

Flies and other insects use vision to regulate their groundspeed in flight, enabling them to fly
in varying wind conditions. Compared with mechanosensory modalities, however, vision …

Mechanosensory neurons located across the body surface respond to tactile stimuli and
elicit diverse behavioral responses, from relatively simple stimulus location-aimed …

Highlights•Dissecting sound transduction and auditory signal processing.•Defining
transcription factors that organize auditory cilia and auditory neuron wiring.•Elucidating …

Johnston's organ is the largest mechanosensory organ in Drosophila. It contributes to
hearing, touch, vestibular sensing, proprioception, and wind sensing. In this study, we used …

Visual object tracking in animals as diverse as felines, frogs, and fish supports behaviors
including predation, predator avoidance, and landscape navigation. Decades of …