Browsing by Author "Kane, Elizabeth"

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    • Controlling Airborne Cues to Study Small Animal Navigation 

      Gershow, Marc; Berck, Matthew E; Mathew, Dennis; Luo, Linjiao; Kane, Elizabeth Anne; Carlson, John R; Samuel, Aravinthan DT (Nature Publishing Group, 2012)
      Small animals such as nematodes and insects analyze airborne chemical cues to infer the direction of favorable and noxious locations. In these animals, the study of navigational behavior evoked by airborne cues has been ...

    • The Sensory and Behavioral Basis of Drosophila Larval Phototaxis 

      Kane, Elizabeth Anne (2013-02-25)
      The avoidance of light by fly larvae has been studied for over a century. Early 20th-century investigators found that larvae crawled away from light sources incident at an angle (e.g. a sunlit window). Contemporary studies ...

    • Sensory determinants of behavioral dynamics in Drosophila thermotaxis 

      Klein, Mason Joseph; Afonso, Bruno; Vonner, Ashley James; Hernandez-Nunez, Luis; Berck, Matthew E; Tabone, Christopher; Kane, Elizabeth Anne; Pieribone, Vincent A.; Nitabach, Michael N.; Cardona, Albert; Zlatic, Marta; Sprecher, Simon G.; Gershow, Marc; Garrity, Paul A.; Samuel, Aravinthan DT (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014)
      Complex animal behaviors are built from dynamical relationships between sensory inputs, neuronal activity, and motor outputs in patterns with strategic value. Connecting these patterns illuminates how nervous systems compute ...

    • Two Alternating Motor Programs Drive Navigation In Drosophila Larva 

      Samuel, Aravinthan DT; Shen, Konlin; Klein, Mason; Tang, Anji; Kane, Elizabeth Anne; Gershow, Marc; Garrity, Paul; Lahiri, Subhaneil (Public Library of Science, 2011)
      When placed on a temperature gradient, a Drosophila larva navigates away from excessive cold or heat by regulating the size, frequency, and direction of reorientation maneuvers between successive periods of forward movement. ...