The movement tracker: A flexible system for automated movement analysis in invertebrate model organisms

Current Protocols in Neuroscience

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 8.37.1-8.37.21

  Mouchiroud, Laurent ^a   Sorrentino, Vincenzo ^a   Williams, Evan G ^a   Cornaglia, Matteo ^a   Frochaux, Michael V ^a   Lin, Tao ^a   Nicolet dit Félix, Amandine A ^a   Krishnamani, Gopal ^a   Ouhmad, Tarik ^a   Gijs, Martin A M ^a   Deplancke, Bart ^a   Auwerx, Johan ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aging; C. elegans; D. melanogaster; Model organisms; Movement; Neurodegeneration; Software

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY TRACKER; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BODY MOVEMENT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATE MODEL; LABORATORY TEST; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING; WORM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; DEVICES; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, ANIMAL; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85029424186     PISSN: 19348584     EISSN: 19348576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpns.17     Document Type: Article

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