Tracking Sugar-Elicited Local Searching Behavior in Drosophila.

ABSTRACT: Foraging behavior is essential for the survival of organisms as it enables them to locate and acquire essential food resources. In Drosophila, hunger triggers a distinct search behavior following the consumption of small quantities of a sugar solution. This report presents a simple experimental setup to study sugar-elicited search behavior with the aim of uncovering the underlying mechanisms. Minute quantities of concentrated sugar solution elicit sustained searching behavior in flies. The involvement of path integration in this behavior has been established, as flies utilize their trajectory to return to the sugar location. The most recent findings provide evidence of temporal modulation in the initiation and intensity of the search behavior after sugar intake. We have also used this setu

SUBMITTER: Shakeel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7615537 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature