Monitoring and analyzing Drosophila circadian locomotor activity

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 362, Issue , 2007, Pages 67-81

  Zordan, Mauro A ^a   Benna, Clara ^a   Mazzotta, Gabriella ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Actograms; Circadian rhythms; CLEAN; Drosophila; Infrared emitter; Locomotor activity; Open source; Period; Phase; Python; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETICS; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34248592705     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1385/1-59745-257-2:67     Document Type: Article

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