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High-resolution Quantification of Odor-guided Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster Using the Flywalk Paradigm
Authors:Michael Thoma  Bill S. Hansson  Markus Knaden
Affiliation:1.Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Abstract:In their natural environment, insects such as the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster are bombarded with a huge amount of chemically distinct odorants. To complicate matters even further, the odors detected by the insect nervous system usually are not single compounds but mixtures whose composition and concentration ratios vary. This leads to an almost infinite amount of different olfactory stimuli which have to be evaluated by the nervous system.To understand which aspects of an odor stimulus determine its evaluation by the fly, it is therefore desirable to efficiently examine odor-guided behavior towards many odorants and odor mixtures. To directly correlate behavior to neuronal activity, behavior should be quantified in a comparable time frame and under identical stimulus conditions as in neurophysiological experiments. However, many currently used olfactory bioassays in Drosophila neuroethology are rather specialized either towards efficiency or towards resolution.Flywalk, an automated odor delivery and tracking system, bridges the gap between efficiency and resolution. It allows the determination of exactly when an odor packet stimulated a freely walking fly, and to determine the animal´s dynamic behavioral reaction.
Keywords:Neuroscience   Issue 106   Neuroethology   neurobiology   behavior   Drosophila melanogaster   olfaction
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