title: Insect Navigation: What Backward Walking Reveals about the Control of Movement.
abstract: Ants often walk backwards to drag large prey to their nest. New experiments show how they can use information from retinotopically encoded views to follow visual routes even while moving backwards. The mechanisms enabling ants to decouple body orientation and the control of travel direction are likely to be shared with other, flying, insects.
authors.affiliation: Psychology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK. Electronic address: m.collett@exeter.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Collett
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK. Electronic address: paulgr@sussex.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK. Electronic address: t.s.collett@sussex.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Thomas S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Collett
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants; D004777:Environment; D009949:Orientation; D000072458:Orientation, Spatial; D016138:Walking