The inebri-actometer: a device for measuring the locomotor activity of Drosophila exposed to ethanol vapor

• Published in: Journal of neuroscience methods Vol. 107; no. 1; pp. 93 - 99
• Main Authors: Parr, J, Large, A, Wang, X, Fowler, S.C, Ratzlaff, K.L, Ruden, D.M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 30.05.2001; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Actometer; Alcoholism - genetics; Alcoholism - physiopathology; Animals; Behavior; Biological and medical sciences; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drosophila; Drosophila - drug effects; Drosophila - physiology; Ethanol - pharmacology; Ethanol sensitivity; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Locomotor activity; Methodology. Experimentation; Motor Activity - drug effects; Motor Activity - physiology; Neuropharmacology - instrumentation; Neuropharmacology - methods; Neurophysiology - instrumentation; Neurophysiology - methods; Photic Stimulation - instrumentation; Photic Stimulation - methods; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychometrics. Statistics. Methodology; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted - instrumentation; Behavior; Actometer; Ethanol sensitivity; Drosophila; Locomotor activity; Animal model; Methodology; Ethanol; Insecta; Experimental device; Genetic determinism; Drosophilidae; Dose activity relation; Locomotion; Animal activity; Spontaneous physical activity; Arthropoda; Animal; Measurement method; Invertebrata; Drosophila melanogaster; Diptera

Drosophila melanogaster can be used as a model organism for probing the genetic basis for alcohol sensitivity. In this paper, we describe a new device, the inebri-actometer, which measures the locomotor activity of up to 128 individual flies simultaneously. The device consists of 128 pairs of emitte...