title: Animal behavior: flying back to front.
abstract: To avoid collisions, flies steer away from expanding visual scenes generated during straight flight: so how do they fly forward when no collision is imminent? A new study shows that wind compensates for this aversion, allowing flies to forge ahead.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. jamiet@physci.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Jamie Carroll
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Theobald
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Frye
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000502:physiology*; D005426:Flight, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014919:Wind