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Analysis of the trajectory of Drosophila melanogaster in a circular open field arena.
PloS one - 24 Oct 2007
Valente Dan, Golani Ilan, Mitra Partha P
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BACKGROUND: Obtaining a complete phenotypic characterization of a freely moving organism is a difficult task, yet such a description is desired in many neuroethological studies. Many metrics currently used in the literature to describe locomotor and exploratory behavior are typically based on average quantities or subjectively chosen spatial and temporal thresholds. All of these measures are relatively...
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