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DOI | 10.1073/pnas.2013342118 |
The long-distance flight behavior of Drosophila supports an agent-based model for wind-assisted dispersal in insects | |
Katherine J. Leitch; Francesca V. Ponce; William B. Dickson; Floris van Breugel; Michael H. Dickinson | |
2021-04-27 | |
发表期刊 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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出版年 | 2021 |
英文摘要 | Despite the ecological importance of long-distance dispersal in insects, its mechanistic basis is poorly understood in genetic model species, in which advanced molecular tools are readily available. One critical question is how insects interact with the wind to detect attractive odor plumes and increase their travel distance as they disperse. To gain insight into dispersal, we conducted release-and-recapture experiments in the Mojave Desert using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. We deployed chemically baited traps in a 1 km radius ring around the release site, equipped with cameras that captured the arrival times of flies as they landed. In each experiment, we released between 30,000 and 200,000 flies. By repeating the experiments under a variety of conditions, we were able to quantify the influence of wind on flies’ dispersal behavior. Our results confirm that even tiny fruit flies could disperse ∼12 km in a single flight in still air and might travel many times that distance in a moderate wind. The dispersal behavior of the flies is well explained by an agent-based model in which animals maintain a fixed body orientation relative to celestial cues, actively regulate groundspeed along their body axis, and allow the wind to advect them sideways. The model accounts for the observation that flies actively fan out in all directions in still air but are increasingly advected downwind as winds intensify. Our results suggest that dispersing insects may strike a balance between the need to cover large distances while still maintaining the chance of intercepting odor plumes from upwind sources. |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/324044 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Katherine J. Leitch,Francesca V. Ponce,William B. Dickson,et al. The long-distance flight behavior of Drosophila supports an agent-based model for wind-assisted dispersal in insects[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,2021. |
APA | Katherine J. Leitch,Francesca V. Ponce,William B. Dickson,Floris van Breugel,&Michael H. Dickinson.(2021).The long-distance flight behavior of Drosophila supports an agent-based model for wind-assisted dispersal in insects.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
MLA | Katherine J. Leitch,et al."The long-distance flight behavior of Drosophila supports an agent-based model for wind-assisted dispersal in insects".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021). |
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