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Neuro* Journal Club at the Free University Berlin

Posts Tagged ‘flies’

The Role of experience in flight behaviour of Drosophila

This study illustrates the requirement of training and exercise in executing successful fine motor skills in the invertebrates.Fruit fly Drosophila groups reared and grown in two different fly chambers ,one allows free flight movement and other restricted flight movement were tested for various flight kinematics in free flight arena and tethered flight simulator.Overall performance of […]

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Effects of appetitive and nonappetitive odors on feeding behavior and on level of biogenic amines

A short communication was published in November 2011 (Neurobiologie) based on a study from 2005 (Journal of Neuroscience). In the blowfly Phormia regina, the authors investigated the effect on PER when flies are (pre-) exposed to odors. They found that feeding threshold to sugar increased in the presence of the repellent D-limonene and decreased in […]

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