Head grooming behaviour in the praying mantis

Zack, Sheldon

doi:10.1016/0003-3472(78)90100-8

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“…Zack (1978a) found a similar (positive) relationship after applying acid to the eye and frons simultaneously [ Fig. 5(B)].…”

Section: Behaviorsupporting

confidence: 58%

“…For 56 ZACK AND BACON example, in grooming episodes initiated with drops of dilute acid applied to the head, the number of cycles per episode increases with increasing stimulus concentration (Zack, 1978a). Also, the duration of FU3 is affected by sensory input from the mouthparts (Zack, 197813) and from the femur brush (unpublished observations after femur brush denervation).…”

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confidence: 95%

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Interommatidial sensilla of the praying mantis: Their central neural projections and role in head‐cleaning behavior

Zack

Bacon

1981

J. Neurobiol.

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The compound eye of the praying mantis is covered with approximately 600 bristles and campaniform sensilla. Their afferents project to the brain, and to the suboesophageal and prothoracic ganglia. Cutting the eye branch of the dorsal tegumentary nerve (DTN), the peripheral nerve innervating the corneal sensilla, makes it impossible to initiate head grooming by tactile stimulation of the eye. This stimulus is a strong releaser of grooming behavior in normal animals. Head grooming can be initiated, after cutting the eye branch of the DTN, by stimulation of the frons (the operation leaves the sensory innervation of this part of the cuticle intact). Frame-by-frame analysis of films of head grooming after cutting the nerve reveals a reduction of the speed at which the forelimb is brushed across the surface of the head and eye. The significance of this finding is discussed in terms of a putative feedback loop from the corneal sensilla to the motor neurons controlling the grooming movements.

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“…Zack (1978a) found a similar (positive) relationship after applying acid to the eye and frons simultaneously [ Fig. 5(B)].…”

Section: Behaviorsupporting

confidence: 58%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Interommatidial sensilla of the praying mantis: Their central neural projections and role in head‐cleaning behavior

Zack

Bacon

1981

J. Neurobiol.

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“…In a singing grasshopper, for example, the patterns of cyclic hind leg movements that produce the sound are controlled by sequential activation of command neurons in the brain (Hedwig and Heinrich 1997). Grooming movements in insects have generally been considered to be stereotyped, cyclic movement patterns that are released by stimulation of a distinct area on the body surface (e.g., Eaton and Farley 1969;Honegger et al 1979;Zack 1978). In locust grooming, the movement sequence and underlying muscle activity differ considerably between responses elicited by stimulation of different sites on the body surface (Berkowitz and Laurent 1996a,b).…”

Section: Continuous Shift Of a Movement Pattern Within A Single Form mentioning

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Graded Limb Targeting in an Insect Is Caused by the Shift of a Single Movement Pattern

Dürr

Matheson

2003

Journal of Neurophysiology

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Dü rr, Volker and Thomas Matheson. Graded limb targeting in an insect is caused by the shift of a single movement pattern. J Neurophysiol 90: 1754 -1765, 2003. First published May 28, 2003 10.1152/jn.00416.2003. Grooming responses are movements of a multi-jointed limb that are targeted toward a stimulus site on the body. To be successful, they require a continuous transformation of stimulus location into a corresponding motor pattern or selection and blending of a subset of cardinal motor patterns. Tactile stimulation of one forewing of a locust elicits characteristic grooming movements of the ipsilateral hind leg. An initial targeted trajectory that moves the tarsus toward the site of stimulation is followed by a cyclic trajectory in the region of the stimulus. We have analyzed both components of this behavior to quantify the relative effects of somatotopic stimulus position and leg start posture on three parameters: initial movement direction, accuracy, and grooming distribution. Accuracy and grooming distribution were significantly affected by the stimulus location but were not influenced by the initial leg posture. Both cues systematically shifted the initial movement direction from the onset of the response. The subsequent cyclic component of grooming movements forms a behavioral continuum with no clustering in joint angle space. We therefore conclude that forewing grooming in locusts is generated by a single movement pattern that is continuously shifted by a sensory cue signaling position on the forewing surface. Both vertebrates and invertebrates can switch between distinct movement forms to groom different parts of their bodies. Our data provide the first evidence that invertebrates, like vertebrates, also have graded control of limb targeting within the somatosensory receptive field of a single form of motor response.

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“…Cleaning behavior of insects has been studied in bees (Hodges, 1952;Thelen and Farish, 1977), flies (Dawkins and Dawkins, 1976), crickets (Huber, 1955;Otte and Cade, 1976;Honegger et al, 1979;Lefebvre, 1981;Hustert, 1985), cockroaches (Eaton and Farley, 1969;Böröczky et al, 2013), locusts (Rowell, 1961;O'Shea, 1970;Pflüger and Burrows, 1978;Berkowitz and Laurent, 1996;Matheson, 1997;Page and Matheson, 2004) and praying mantises (Zack, 1978). Every part of the body surface, including the antennae, head, thorax, flank, and wings is kept clean in these insects by the use of the mouth and legs.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Genital Autocleaning in the Male CricketGryllus bimaculatus(2): Rhythmic Movements of the Genitalia and Their Motor Control

Kumashiro

Shimizu

2016

Zoological Science

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Head grooming behaviour in the praying mantis

Cited by 24 publications

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Interommatidial sensilla of the praying mantis: Their central neural projections and role in head‐cleaning behavior

Interommatidial sensilla of the praying mantis: Their central neural projections and role in head‐cleaning behavior

Graded Limb Targeting in an Insect Is Caused by the Shift of a Single Movement Pattern

Genital Autocleaning in the Male CricketGryllus bimaculatus(2): Rhythmic Movements of the Genitalia and Their Motor Control

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