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Automated Surveillance of Fruit Flies [PDF]
Sensors, 2017 Insects of the Diptera order of the Tephritidae family cause costly, annual crop losses worldwide. Monitoring traps are important components of integrated pest management programs used against fruit flies. Here we report the modification of typical, low-cost plastic traps for fruit flies by adding the necessary optoelectronic sensors to monitor the ...
Ilyas Potamitis +2 more
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Fruit Flies in Biomedical Research [PDF]
Genetics, 2015 AbstractMany scientists complain that the current funding situation is dire. Indeed, there has been an overall decline in support in funding for research from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Within the Drosophila field, some of us question how long this funding crunch will last as it demotivates principal ...
Hugo J. Bellen +4 more
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Auditory system of fruit flies [PDF]
Hearing Research, 2016 The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is an invaluable model for auditory research. Advantages of using the fruit fly include its stereotyped behavior in response to a particular sound, and the availability of molecular-genetic tools to manipulate gene expression and cellular activity.
Yuki Ishikawa, Azusa Kamikouchi
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Fruit flies and intellectual disability [PDF]
Fly, 2009 Mental retardation--known more commonly nowadays as intellectual disability--is a severe neurological condition affecting up to 3% of the general population. As a result of the analysis of familial cases and recent advances in clinical genetic testing, great strides have been made in our understanding of the genetic etiologies of mental retardation ...
Francois V. Bolduc, Tim Tully
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Fruit flies are multistable geniuses
PLOS Biology, 2018 Our sensory systems have evolved to provide us with information about the external world. Such information is useful only insofar as it leads to actions that enhance fitness, and thus, the link between sensation and action has been thoroughly studied in many species. In insects, for example, specific visual stimuli lead to highly stereotyped responses.
Christopher C. Pack, Jamie C. Theobald
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Theta motion processing in fruit flies [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2010 The tiny brains of insects presumably impose significant computational limitations on algorithms controlling their behavior. Nevertheless, they perform fast and sophisticated visual maneuvers. This includes tracking features composed of second-order motion, in which the feature is defined by higher-order image statistics, but not simple correlations in
Theobald, Jamie C +3 more
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Fruit flies and the sperm proteome [PDF]
Human Molecular Genetics, 2007 Sperm have been studied for their obvious role in fertilization and as a model system for cell-cell interactions and cell signaling. Despite its central and critical role in reproduction, we know surprisingly little about the overall molecular composition of sperm.
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Studying Aggression in Drosophila (fruit flies) [PDF]
Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2007 Aggression is an innate behavior that evolved in the framework of defending or obtaining resources. This complex social behavior is influenced by genetic, hormonal and environmental factors. In many organisms, aggression is critical to survival but controlling and suppressing aggression in distinct contexts also has become increasingly important.
Edward A. Kravitz +2 more
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Odour intensity learning in fruit flies [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009 Animals' behaviour towards odours depends on both odour quality and odour intensity. While neuronal coding of odour quality is fairly well studied, how odour intensity is treated by olfactory systems is less clear. Here we study odour intensity processing at the behavioural level, using the fruit flyDrosophila melanogaster.
Yarali, A. +4 more
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eLife, 2013 A method that can analyse the movements of Drosophila as they walk is a valuable addition to the tools available to neurobiologists, and has already led to insights into the interplay of central networks and sensory feedback in this model organism.
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