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The role of haltere feedback during territorial chases in the house fly, Musca domestica

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dc.contributor.advisor Sane, Sanjay P. en_US
dc.contributor.author PATHAK, ALISHA en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2014-05-15T09:17:55Z
dc.date.available 2014-05-15T09:17:55Z
dc.date.issued 2014-05 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.iiserpune.ac.in:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/386
dc.description.abstract Of key importance among natural behaviours are territorial chases in which insects guard and defend home territories by chasing away aerial interlopers. Such territorial behaviours allow insects to secure mates and are hence important for both the survival and evolution of insects. To carry out these complex aerobatic manoeuvres requires the nervous system of the chasing fly to rapidly sense and respond to an interloper. Assays for territorial chases in a laboratory environment hence offer an exciting means to experimentally study various questions about sensorimotor integration in flying insects. In this project, we have designed assays for territorial chases between house flies (Musca domestica), and filmed them using high-speed cameras. With this assay, we tried to understand the role of mechanosensory input from the halteres. Using multiple, synchronized cameras, we obtain 3D coordinates of the head and abdomen of the territorial defender and the interloper. We compared ethograms to gain qualitative insight in the flight defects of flies with their halteres intact and either haltere ablated. Though, we have their flight trajectories, but we are yet to quantify the defects in flight trajectories when they move in three dimensions. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship DST INSPIRE en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject 2014
dc.subject Halteres en_US
dc.subject flight behavior en_US
dc.subject chase en_US
dc.subject high speed filming en_US
dc.title The role of haltere feedback during territorial chases in the house fly, Musca domestica en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
dc.type.degree BS-MS en_US
dc.contributor.department Interdisciplinary en_US
dc.contributor.registration 20091103 en_US


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    Thesis submitted to IISER Pune in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the BS-MS Dual Degree Programme/MSc. Programme/MS-Exit Programme

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