Two new papers about how flies measure and respond to wind during olfactory search!
Wind history influences where flies search (w/ J. Houle):
tinyurl.com/bbnjhvc9
PFN neurons carry information sufficient for estimating wind (w/ C. May, B. Cellini, K. Nagel, etc):
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Central complex representations of self-movement are sufficient to compute wind direction in flight
Flying flies can determine ambient wind direction in flight, but what neural representations might support this behavior are unclear. Ambient wind acting on a flying fly creates distinct patterns of a...