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Abstract :

Insects have complex life cycles, including discrete transitional periods like metamorphosis, during which they are particularly vulnerable to the environment. For instance, immobile pupae in holometabolous insects cannot relocate/move during the metamorphic period. For this reason, they depend on the preceding larval stage for choosing a suitable location, and this physiological choice is often subjected to strong selection. In this selection process, named pupariation site selection (PSS), the sensory system is crucial in perceiving the environment and commanding the proper locomotor behavior. This seminar will summarize our recent results regarding how the sensory system detects the environment to exert a geotaxis behavior affecting insect PSS. For this, we use the Drosophila model, in which we and others have established that the sensory system shows several structural and functional parallels even with mammals.

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