2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Instability and compensatory processing of a light compass in insects
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22770067
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Animal physiology/Animal behavior
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| Research Institution | Hamamatsu University School of Medicine |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | ナビゲーション / 定位 / 経路積算 / 太陽コンパス / 複眼 / ツチカメムシ類 / 亜社会性 / 視覚 |
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| Research Abstract |
Most animal navigators use light compasses such as sun compassto perform their navigation. However, the light compass involves several problems that are related to instability. The present study has clarified that two factors, namely“distance to compass reference” and “disappearance by obstacle” influence to theinstability of the light compass in the provisioning navigation of subsocial burrower bugs. And the experimental results have shown that these species independently processes multiple compass references in a light compass to compensate for the instability problems.
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