Effects of Spontaneous Locomotion on the Cricket's Walking Response to a Wind Stimulus |
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Authors: | Heribert Gras Anke Bartels |
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Institution: | Institut für Zoologie und Anthropologie, Universit?t G?ttingen, Berliner Strasse 28, D-37073 G?ttingen, Germany, DE
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Abstract: | Tethered walking crickets often respond to single wind puffs (50 ms duration) directed from 45° left or right to the abdominal
cerci with a short running bout of about 300 ms, followed by normal locomotion. To test for an effect of the current behavioral
state on the running response, we applied wind stimuli when the insect attained a predefined translatorial and/or rotatorial
velocity during spontaneous walking. The latency, duration, and velocity profile of the running bout always proved to be constant,
representing a reflexlike all-or-nothing reaction, while the probability of this response was low after even brief standing
and increased with the forward speed of spontaneous walking at the moment of stimulation. In contrast, the current rotatorial
speed did not affect the stimulus response.
Received: 26 August 1998 / Accepted in revised form: 2 December 1998 |
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