Impact of central complex lesions on visual orientation in ants: Turning behaviour, but not the overall movement direction, is disrupted
Dell-Cronin, S.; Buehlmann, C.; Diyalagoda Pathirannahelage, A.; Goulard, R.; Webb, B.; Niven, J. E.; Graham, P.
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Wood ants are excellent navigators using a combination of innate and learnt navigational strategies to travel between their nest and feeding sites. Visual navigation in ants has been studied extensively, however, we only know little about the underlying neural mechanisms. The central complex (CX) is located at the midline of the insect brain. It receives sensory input that allows an insect to keep track of the direction of sensory cues relative to its own orientation and to control movement. We show here direct evidence for the involvement of the central complex in the innate visual orientation response of freely moving wood ants. Lesions in the CX disrupted the control of turning in a lateralised manner, but had no effect on the overall heading direction, walking speed or path straightness.
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