Article
Multi-channel acoustic recording and automated analysis of Drosophila courtship songs.
BMC biology - 31 Jan 2013
Arthur Benjamin J, Sunayama-Morita Tomoko, Coen Philip, Murthy Mala, Stern David L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Drosophila melanogaster has served as a powerful model system for genetic studies of courtship songs. To accelerate research on the genetic and neural mechanisms underlying courtship song, we have developed a sensitive recording system to simultaneously capture the acoustic signals from 32 separate pairs of courting flies as well as software for automated segmentation of songs. RESULTS: Our novel...
Topics
- Animal Communication
- Animals
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Genetic Variation
- Sexual Behavior, Animal
- Videotape Recording
