Natural variability and individuality of walking behavior in Drosophila.

ABSTRACT: Insects use walking behavior in a large number of contexts, such as exploration, foraging, escape and pursuit, or migration. A lot is known about how nervous systems produce this behavior in general and also how certain parameters vary with regard to walking direction or speed, for instance. An aspect that has not received much attention is whether and how walking behavior varies across individuals of a particular species. To address this, we created a large corpus of kinematic walking data of many individuals of the fruit fly Drosophila. We only selected instances of straight walking in a narrow range of walking speeds to minimize the influence of high-level parameters, such as turning and walking speed, aiming to uncover more subtle aspects of variability. Using high-speed videography an

SUBMITTER: Godesberg V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11607691 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature