Dyeing Insects for Behavioral Assays: the Mating Behavior of Anesthetized <em>Drosophila</em>

Rudi L. Verspoor; Chloe Heys; Thomas A. R. Price

doi:10.3791/52645

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神经科学

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染色昆虫行为检测:麻醉的交配行为<em>果蝇</em

Dyeing Insects for Behavioral Assays: the Mating Behavior of Anesthetized <em>Drosophila</em>

JoVE 杂志
神经科学

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JoVE 杂志神经科学

Dyeing Insects for Behavioral Assays: the Mating Behavior of Anesthetized Drosophila

染色昆虫行为检测:麻醉的交配行为<em>果蝇</em

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Rudi L. Verspoor¹, Chloe Heys¹, Thomas A. R. Price¹

¹Institute of Integrative Biology,University of Liverpool

Summary

This protocol describes a simple, cost effective way to individually identify Drosophila or other insects. Demonstration data investigating mating success across three species of Drosophila show that this method is comparable or better than the use of CO₂ anaesthesia.