Topic: haltere afferents

Sensory feature maps are a key building block in the information-processing infrastructure of the nervous system. However, our understanding of how such maps interface with motor circuits to produce behavior at rapid timescales remains poor. Here, we examine this problem through the lens of flight control in Drosophila melanogaster. Underlying the extraordinary aerial agility of the fruit fly is mechanosensory feedback from the haltere, a reduced hindwing that acts as both a biological gyroscope and an adjustable clock to set the spike-timing of wing-steering motor neurons. Although the halter