Visuomotor control: not so simple insect locomotion.
Observations of locusts walking on a horizontal ladder demonstrate that front leg movements are targeted by visual and antennal cues, suggesting sophisticated motor control mechanisms for these seemingly simple animals.
Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7080, USA. roy.ritzmann@case.edu
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D000818:Animals; D003058:Cockroaches / Q000502:physiology; D006110:Grasshoppers / Q000502:physiology; D007313:Insecta / Q000502:physiology*; D008124:Locomotion / Q000502:physiology; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology