Visual motion: homing in on small target detectors.
Tracking moving targets is essential for animals that pursue prey or conspecifics. Recent studies in male and female hoverflies have described classes of neurons that detect the movements of small targets against a moving background but the mechanisms generating their responses remain unclear.
Niven
Jeremy E
JE
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancón, Panama City, Republic of Panama. nivenj@si.edu
D000818:Animals; D004175:Diptera / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D011235:Predatory Behavior; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal