fly papers

Manuscripts under review:

Theobald  JC, Tavassoli A, Frye MA, Ringach DL (in review) Fruit flies solve the aperture problem

Theobald  JC, Ringach DL, Frye MA (in review) Dynamics of optomotor responses in Drosophila to perturbations in optic flow

Fei H, Chow DM, Simpson J, Romero R, Frye MA, Krantz D (in review) Genetic rescue of the vesicular GABA transporter and the influence on complex visual behavior in Drosophila

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Theobald JC, Ringach, DL, Frye MA (in press) Visual stabilization dynamics are enhanced by standing flight velocity. Biol Letters

Frye MA (in press) Neurobiology: Fly Gyro-Vision. Curr Biol dispatch

Duistermars BJ, Frye MA (in press) Multisensory integration for odor tracking in Drosophila: behavior, circuits, and speculation. Comm and Int Biol (CIB) 3(1) article addendum

Duistermars BJ, Chow DM, Frye MA (2009) Flies require bilateral sensory input to track odor gradients in flight. Curr Biol, 19:1301-1307

Zhu Y , Frye MA (2009) Neurogenetics and the 'fly stampede': dissecting neural circuits involved in visual behaviors. Fly, 3(3):207-209 extra view

Zhu Y, Nern A, Zipursky SL, Frye MA (2009) Peripheral visual circuits functionally segregate motion and phototaxis behavior in the fly. Curr Biol 19(7):613-619

Bender JA , Frye MA (2009) Which way is up? Invertebrate solutions for sensing gravity. Curr Biol 19(5):r186-r189 review

Chow DM , Frye MA (2009) The neuro-ecology of resource localization in Drosophila: behavioral components of perception and search. Fly 3(1):50-61 review

Frye MA, Duistermars BJ (2009) Visually mediated odor tracking during flight in Drosophila. JoVE 23 methods

Duistermars BJ , Frye MA (2008) A magnetic tether system to investigate visual and olfactory mediated flight control in Drosophila. JoVE 21 methods

Chow DM, Frye MA (2008) Context dependent olfactory enhancement of optomotor flight control in Drosophila. J Exp Biol 211:2478-2485

Theobald JC, Duistermars BJ, Ringach DL, Frye MA (2008) Flies see second-order motion. Curr Biol 18(11):r464

Duistermars BJ, Frye MA (2008) Cross-modal visual input for odor tracking during fly flight. Curr Biol 18(4):270-275 (featured in dispatch)

Theobald JC, Frye MA (2008) Animal Behavior: Flying back to front. Curr Biol 18:r169 dispatch

Duistermars BJ , Chow DM, Contro M, Frye MA (2007) The spatial, temporal, and contrast properties of expansion and rotation flight optomotor responses in Drosophila.  J Exp Biol 210:3218-3227

Frye MA, Dickinson MH (2007) Visual edge orientation shapes free-flight behavior in Drosophila. Fly 1(3) 153-154

Duistermars BJ, Reiser M, Zhu Y, Frye MA (2007) Dynamic properties of large-field and small-field optomotor responses in Drosophila. J Comp Physiol 193:787-799

Frye MA (2007) Neuromechanics of fly flight control in Advances in Invertebrate Neurobiology, eds. R. Greenspan and G. North, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, NY

Reynolds A, Frye MA (2007) Odor tracking in Drosophila is consistent with an optimal scale-free search PLoS ONE 2(4): e354 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000354 (featured by The New York Times 4/09/07)

Frye MA (2007) Behavioral Neurobiology: A vibrating gyroscope controls fly steering behavior Curr Biol 17(4) 134-136 dispatch

Humbert JS, Frye MA (2006) Extracting behaviorally relevant retinal image motion cues via wide-field integration. Proceedings for IEEE American Control Conference

Dickinson MH, Farman GP, Frye MA, Bekyarova T, Maughan DW, Irvine T (2005) Molecular dynamics of a cyclically contracting insect flight muscle in vivo.  Nature 433 (7023) 330-333

Frye MA, Gray J (2005) Mechanosensory integration for flight control in insects. in Advances in Insect Sensory Neuroscience, ed. T. Christensen, series Methods and New Frontiers in Neuroscience, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (cover feature)

Frye MA, Dickinson MH (2004) Closing the loop between neurobiology and behavior in Drosophila.  Curr Opion Neurobio 14 (6) 729-736 (cover feature)

Frye MA, Dickinson MH (2004) Motor output reflects linear superposition of visual and olfactory input in Drosophila. J Exp Biol 207 (1) 123-131

Tammero LF*, Frye MA* , Dickinson MH (2004) Spatial organization of visuomotor reflexes in Drosophila. J Exp Biol 207 (1) 113-122 *authors contributed equally

Frye MA, Dickinson MH (2003) A signature of salience in the Drosophila brain. Nat Neurosci (6) 544-546 news and views

Frye MA, Tarsitano M, Dickinson MH (2003) Odor localization requires visual feedback during free-flight in Drosophila melanogaster. J Exp Biol 206 (5) 843-855

Frye MA, Dickinson MH (2001) Fly flight: a model for the neural control of complex behavior. Neuron 32 385-388 review

secondary source profiles

Inside JEB by Kathryn Phillips (2003)

Inside JEB by G.T. Huang (2004)

New York Times by Henry Fountain (2007)

New Scientist by Sandrine Ceurstemont (2008)

National Science Foundation modified from a story by science reporter Mark Wheeler (2008)

Current Biology news-and-views piece by Cole Gilbert and Bas Kuenen (2008)

other work

Frye MA (2001) Effects of stretch receptor ablation on the optomotor control of lift in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta. J Exp Biol 204 (21) 3683-3691 (cover feature)

Frye MA (2001) Encoding properties of the wing hinge stretch receptor in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta. J Exp Biol 204 (21) 3693-3702

Persons MH, Fleishman LJ, Frye MA , Stimphil ME (1999) Sensory response patterns and the evolution of visual signal design in anoline lizards.  J Comp Physiol 184: 585-607

Frye MA, Olberg RM (1995) Visual receptive field properties of feature detecting neurons in the dragonfly.  J Comp Physiol 177:569-576

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