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DOI | 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80451-5 |
Calibration of vector navigation in desert ants | |
Collett, M; Collett, TS; Wehner, R | |
通讯作者 | Collett, TS |
来源期刊 | CURRENT BIOLOGY |
ISSN | 0960-9822 |
出版年 | 1999 |
卷号 | 9期号:18页码:1031-1034 |
英文摘要 | Desert ants (Cataglyphis sp.) monitor their position relative to the nest using a form of dead reckoning [1-3] known as path integration (PI) [4]. They do this with a sun compass and an odometer to update an accumulator that records their current position [1]. Ants can use PI to return to the nest [2,3]. Here, we report that desert ants, like honeybees [5] and hamsters [6], can also use PI to approach a previously visited food source. To navigate to a goal using only PI information, a forager must recall a previous state of the accumulator specifying the goal, and compare it with the accumulator’s current state [4], The comparison - essentially vector subtraction - gives the direction to the goal. This whole process, which we call vector navigation, was found to be calibrated at recognised sites, such as the nest and a familiar feeder, throughout the life of a forager. If a forager was trained around a one-way circuit in which the result of PI on the return route did not match the result on the outward route, calibration caused the ant’s trajectories to be misdirected. We propose a model of vector navigation to suggest how calibration could produce such trajectories. |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | England ; Switzerland |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000082745900020 |
WOS类目 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ; Cell Biology |
WOS研究方向 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ; Cell Biology |
来源机构 | University of Oxford |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/137181 |
作者单位 | (1)Univ Oxford, Dept Zool, Oxford OX1 3PS, England;(2)Univ Sussex, Sussex Ctr Neurosci, Brighton BN1 9QG, E Sussex, England;(3)Univ Zurich, Dept Zool, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Collett, M,Collett, TS,Wehner, R. Calibration of vector navigation in desert ants[J]. University of Oxford,1999,9(18):1031-1034. |
APA | Collett, M,Collett, TS,&Wehner, R.(1999).Calibration of vector navigation in desert ants.CURRENT BIOLOGY,9(18),1031-1034. |
MLA | Collett, M,et al."Calibration of vector navigation in desert ants".CURRENT BIOLOGY 9.18(1999):1031-1034. |
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