Quantification of gait parameters in freely walking wild type and sensory deprived Drosophila melanogaster

eLife

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Mendes, César S ^a   Bartos, Imre ^b   Akay, Turgay ^a   Márka, Szabolcs ^b   Mann, Richard S ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GAIT DISORDER; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR COORDINATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTIVE FEEDBACK; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SENSORY FEEDBACK; STANDING; WALKING SPEED; ANIMAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVICES; GAIT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INNERVATION; LIMB; OPTICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TIME; TRANSDUCER; VIDEORECORDING; WALKING;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXTREMITIES; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; GAIT; GENOTYPE; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHENOTYPE; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; VIDEO RECORDING; WALKING;

EID: 84878688343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00231     Document Type: Article

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