Open‐field arena boundary is a primary object of exploration for Drosophila
dc.contributor.author | Soibam, Benjamin | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Mann, Monica | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Liu, Lingzhi | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Tran, Jessica | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lobaina, Milena | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Kang, Yuan Yuan | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Gunaratne, Gemunu H. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Pletcher, Scott D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Roman, Gregg | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-04-04T18:43:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-05-01T17:24:44Z | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2012-03 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Soibam, Benjamin; Mann, Monica; Liu, Lingzhi; Tran, Jessica; Lobaina, Milena; Kang, Yuan Yuan; Gunaratne, Gemunu H.; Pletcher, Scott; Roman, Gregg (2012). "Open‐field arena boundary is a primary object of exploration for Drosophila ." Brain and Behavior 2(2). <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/90592> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2162-3279 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2162-3279 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/90592 | |
dc.description.abstract | Drosophila adults, when placed into a novel open‐field arena, initially exhibit an elevated level of activity followed by a reduced stable level of spontaneous activity and spend a majority of time near the arena edge, executing motions along the walls. In order to determine the environmental features that are responsible for the initial high activity and wall‐following behavior exhibited during exploration, we examined wild‐type and visually impaired mutants in arenas with different vertical surfaces. These experiments support the conclusion that the wall‐following behavior of Drosophila is best characterized by a preference for the arena boundary, and not thigmotaxis or centrophobicity. In circular arenas, Drosophila mostly move in trajectories with low turn angles. Since the boundary preference could derive from highly linear trajectories, we further developed a simulation program to model the effects of turn angle on the boundary preference. In an hourglass‐shaped arena with convex‐angled walls that forced a straight versus wall‐following choice, the simulation with constrained turn angles predicted general movement across a central gap, whereas Drosophila tend to follow the wall. Hence, low turn angled movement does not drive the boundary preference. Lastly, visually impaired Drosophila demonstrate a defect in attenuation of the elevated initial activity. Interestingly, the visually impaired w 1118 activity decay defect can be rescued by increasing the contrast of the arena's edge, suggesting that the activity decay relies on visual detection of the boundary. The arena boundary is, therefore, a primary object of exploration for Drosophila . In an open field arena, Drosophila spend the majority of time at the arena boundary even when additional vertical surfaces are present in the interior. The visually impaired white files have defects in the attenuation of exploratory activity. by increasing the contrast of the boundary, we can rescue this defect in white mutants, demonstrating that the boundary is a primary object of exploration in an open field arena. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Inc | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anxiety | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Thigmotaxis | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Exploratory Activity | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Drosophila | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Centrophobicity | en_US |
dc.title | Open‐field arena boundary is a primary object of exploration for Drosophila | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Neurology and Neurosciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan Geriatrics Center, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 49108 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Biology of Behavior Institute, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Natural Sciences, University of Houston Downtown, Houston, Texas 77002 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204 | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 22574279 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90592/1/brb3.36.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/brb3.36 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Brain and Behavior | en_US |
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