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Um den Erfolg dieses Protokolls sicherzustellen, ist es wichtig, Maßnahmen ergreifen, um eine ausreichende Anzahl von Larven, die Experimente durchführen zu erhalten. Dazu gehören Pre-Fütterung die fliegen in Hefe einfügen-haltigen Fläschchen für 2-3-d zur Eiablage zu verbessern. Die Fläschchen müssen platziert in einer Schale mit Wasser Fläschchen und eingeschlossen in eine klare Plastiktüte, die bewahrt der Feuchtigkeit der Nahrung und fördert effektive Fütterung durch die Larven während der Exposition ge...

Thermotaxis wird durch mobile Tiere eingesetzt, um eine Umgebung mit den günstigsten Bedingungen1,2,3auswählen. Wenn das Klima übermäßig heiß oder kalt, dieses Verhalten ist wichtig für das Überleben ist. Darüber hinaus viele Tiere reagieren empfindlich auf sehr kleine Unterschiede in der Temperatur im Bereich von komfortablen und Umgebung mit einer idealen Temperatur aufsuchen. Dies ist von besonderer Bedeutung für wechselwarme Organismen wie Fruchtfliegen, die ihre Körpertemperatur mit der Umgebung equilibrate. Assays, Larven Thermotaxis überwachen wurden maßgeblich bei der Identifizierung und Klärung der Rolle der molekularen Sensoren wie Drosophila Transienten Rezeptor Potential (TRP) Kanäle4,5,6, rhodopsine7,8und Ionotropic Rezeptor-Rezeptoren (IRs)9, die diese Tiere mit Temperatur Empfindlichkeiten in verschiedenen Temperaturbereichen zu verleihen.
Ein zwei-Wege-Choice-Test bietet einen Ansatz zur Untersuchung der thermischer Präferenzen in Larven6,7. Der Test beinhaltet zur Gründung zwei unterschiedliche Temperaturzonen und erlaubt den Tieren, eine Seite über die andere auswählen. Die Ergebnisse von zwei-Wege-Choice-Tests sind robust, vor allem wenn die Temperaturunterschiede zwischen den beiden Optionen groß sind. Darüber hinaus da jedes Assay tabellarisieren nur zwei Gruppen umfasst, können die Daten als einfache Präferenz-Index ausgedrückt werden. Die Leichtigkeit und Einfachheit der zwei-Wege-Wahl-Assays sind auch genetische Bildschirme zugänglich. Eine große Einschränkung ist jedoch, dass viele Experimente erforderlich sind, um die gewünschte Temperatur der Wildtyp oder mutierte Tiere zu etablieren.
Ein gradienter Assay bietet die Möglichkeit, die gewünschte Temperatur in einem einzigen Test8aufzunehmen. Darüber hinaus ermöglicht es im Gegensatz zu den zwei-Wege-Choice-Test, die Auswertung der Verteilung der einer Gruppe von Tieren, konfrontiert mit einer kontinuierlichen Reihe von Temperaturen. Ein gradient Assay verwendet eine Petrischale und Einzeltiere und eignet sich gut für die Charakterisierung von detaillierten Verhaltens einzelner Tiere10. Jedoch da Petrischalen Runde sind, die Größen der Temperaturzonen variieren und sind abhängig von der Entfernung vom Zentrum nach und nach kleiner. Dieses Setup ist daher nicht ideal für die Überwachung der Temperatur-Auswahl der Populationen von Tieren.
Eine kontinuierliche thermischen Gradienten Apparat, der gut geeignet, um die Temperatur-Einstellungen von Gruppen von Larven zu beurteilen ist eine rechteckige Arena beschäftigt und wird hier beschrieben. Das Gerät ist einfach zu konstruieren und montieren. Die Steigung ist linear und ist flexibel, da es verwendet werden kann, inwieweit Thermotaxis über große Temperaturbereiche von 10 ° C bis 42 ° C. Der Test ist schnell und unkompliziert durchzuführen und liefert reproduzierbare Daten. Neben der Berichterstattung der bevorzugten Temperatur der Larven, zeigt es die Präferenzen der Bevölkerung von Tieren über eine gesamte lineare Bereich in einem einzigen Experiment. Aufgrund dieser Vorteile ist es eine ausgezeichnete Wahl für die Identifizierung von Genen, die für Thermotaxis erforderlich.

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a temperature gradient assay to determine thermal preferences of drosophila larvae

Viele Tiere, einschließlich der Taufliege Drosophila Melanogaster, sind in der Lage, unterscheidende winzige Unterschiede in der Umgebungstemperatur, die ihnen ermöglicht, ihre bevorzugten Thermenlandschaft suchen. Um die Temperatur-Einstellungen von Larven über einen definierten linearen Bereich zu definieren, haben wir einen Test mit einem Temperaturgradienten entwickelt. Um einen Single-direktionalen Verlauf zu etablieren, sind zwei Aluminium-Blöcke mit unabhängigen Wasserbäder, verbunden, die jeweils die Temperatur der einzelnen Blöcke steuert. Die beiden Blöcke setzen die unteren und oberen Grenzen des Farbverlaufs. Der Temperaturgradient entsteht durch eine Agarose-beschichteten Alu-Platte über die zwei Wasser-gesteuerte Blöcke platzieren, damit die Platte erstreckt sich über den Abstand zwischen ihnen. Die Enden der Aluminiumplatte, die oben auf dem Wasser-Blöcke festgelegt ist definiert die minimalen und maximalen Temperaturen und die Regionen zwischen den beiden Blöcken bilden ein linearer Temperaturgradient. Der gradient-Test kann an Larven verschiedener Altersstufen angewendet werden und kann verwendet werden, um durch Mutation entstehende Variationen zu identifizieren, die Ausstellung Phänotypen, wie jene mit Mutationen Gene codieren, TRP-Kanäle und Opsins, die für Temperatur Diskriminierung erforderlich sind.

Um eine 18 ° C - 28 ° C Single-direktionale etablieren soll Gefälle, wir die Temperaturen der zwei Wasserbäder 16,8 ° C und 31 ° C. Wir erreichen die Temperaturen auf 13 Punkte durch Messen der Temperatur bei 26 Positionen innerhalb der oberen und unteren Abschnitte aller 6 Zonen, die Grenzlinien zwischen den Zonen und an den äußersten Enden der Agarose-Gel-Oberfläche (Abbildung 2, 2E). Die Temperaturverteilung entlang der Steigung w...

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A Temperature Gradient Assay to Determine Thermal Preferences of Drosophila Larvae

Hier präsentieren wir ein Protokoll, um die bevorzugte Umgebungstemperatur von Drosophila -Larven mit einem kontinuierlichen Temperaturgefälle zu bestimmen.

Ein Temperaturgradient Assay thermische Präferenzen der Drosophila Larven bestimmen

Many animals, including the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, are capable of discriminating minute differences in&#160;environmental temperature, which ...

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A Temperature Gradient Assay to Determine Thermal Preferences of Drosophila Larvae

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Local and Global Methods of Assessing Thermal Nociception in Drosophila Larvae

In this article, we demonstrate assays to study thermal nociception in Drosophila larvae. One assay involves spatially-restricted (local) stimulation of thermal nociceptors1,2 while the second involves a wholesale (global) activation of most or all such neurons3. Together, these techniques allow visualization and quantification of the behavioral functions of Drosophila nociceptive sensory neurons.
The Drosophila larva is an established model system to study thermal nociception, a sensory response to potentially harmful temperatures that is evolutionarily conserved across species1,2. The advantages of Drosophila for such studies are the relative simplicity of its nervous system and the sophistication of the genetic techniques that can be used to dissect the molecular basis of the underlying biology4-6 In Drosophila, as in all metazoans, the response to noxious thermal stimuli generally involves a "nocifensive" aversive withdrawal to the presented stimulus7. Such stimuli are detected through free nerve endings or nociceptors and the amplitude of the organismal response depends on the number of nociceptors receiving the noxious stimulus8. In Drosophila, it is the class IV dendritic arborization sensory neurons that detect noxious thermal and mechanical stimuli9 in addition to their recently discovered role as photoreceptors10. These neurons, which have been very well studied at the developmental level, arborize over the barrier epidermal sheet and make contacts with nearly all epidermal cells11,12. The single axon of each class IV neuron projects into the ventral nerve cord of the central nervous system11 where they may connect to second-order neurons that project to the brain.
Under baseline conditions, nociceptive sensory neurons will not fire until a relatively high threshold is reached. The assays described here allow the investigator to quantify baseline behavioral responses or, presumably, the sensitization that ensues following tissue damage. Each assay provokes distinct but related locomotory behavioral responses to noxious thermal stimuli and permits the researcher to visualize and quantify various aspects of thermal nociception in Drosophila larvae. The assays can be applied to larvae of desired genotypes or to larvae raised under different environmental conditions that might impact nociception. Since thermal nociception is conserved across species, the findings gleaned from genetic dissection in Drosophila will likely inform our understanding of thermal nociception in other species, including vertebrates.

Local and Global Methods of Assessing Thermal Nociception in Drosophila Larvae

In this article, we demonstrate assays to study thermal nociception in Drosophila larvae. One assay involves spatially-restricted (local) stimulation of thermal nociceptors1,2 while the second involves a wholesale (global) activation of most or all such neurons3. Together, these techniques allow visualization and quantification of the behavioral functions of Drosophila nociceptive sensory neurons.

Lokale und globale Methoden zur Beurteilung der thermischen Nozizeption in<em&gt; Drosophila</em&gt; Larven

In this article, we demonstrate assays to study thermal nociception in Drosophila larvae. One assay involves spatially-restricted (local) stimulation of ...

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An Automated Method to Determine the Performance of Drosophila in Response to Temperature Changes in Space and Time

Temperature is a ubiquitous environmental factor that affects how species distribute and behave. Different species of Drosophila fruit flies have specific responses to changing temperatures according to their physiological tolerance and adaptability. Drosophila flies also possess a temperature sensing system that has become fundamental to understanding the neural basis of temperature processing in ectotherms. We present here a temperature-controlled arena that permits fast and precise temperature changes with temporal and spatial control to explore the response of individual flies to changing temperatures. Individual flies are placed in the arena and exposed to pre-programmed temperature challenges, such as uniform gradual increases in temperature to determine reaction norms or spatially distributed temperatures at the same time to determine preferences. Individuals are automatically tracked, allowing the quantification of speed or location preference. This method can be used to rapidly quantify the response over a large range of temperatures to determine temperature performance curves in Drosophila or other insects of similar size. In addition, it can be used for genetic studies to quantify temperature preferences and reactions of mutants or wild-type flies. This method can help uncover the basis of thermal speciation and adaptation, as well as the neural mechanisms behind temperature processing.

An Automated Method to Determine the Performance of Drosophila in Response to Temperature Changes in Space and Time

Here we present a protocol to automatically determine the locomotor performance of Drosophila at changing temperatures using a programmable temperature-controlled arena that produces fast and accurate temperature changes in time and space.

Eine automatisierte Methode zur Bestimmung der Leistungsfähigkeit von Drosophila als Reaktion auf Temperaturänderungen in Raum und Zeit

Temperature is a ubiquitous environmental factor that affects how species distribute and behave. Different species of Drosophila fruit flies have specific ...

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<meta charset="utf8"></head><body>Messung der Wärmetoleranz bei Drosophila mit hohem Durchsatz mit DAM2-Systemen

Heat Tolerance Assays Using the Drosophila Activity Monitor System: A Guide to an Executable Application for Data Analysis

The study of heat tolerance in&#8239;Drosophila melanogaster has been of particular interest to researchers for decades, with a common approach to assessing heat tolerance being to monitor the time to knockdown (TKD) after exposure to an elevated temperature. Classically, flies are housed in individual vials and placed inside a heated water bath. TKD is then monitored manually by researchers. While very well-established, there remain problems of subjectivity and consistent application of a tangible definition of cessation of all movement, including muscular spasms, when implementing these manual assays. We have developed a high-throughput method for automating heat tolerance assays using the TriKinetics Drosophila Activity Monitors (DAM2). To accompany the DAM2 system, we have written a program and created an easy-use executable to automatically read the last time of movement from the activity data generated. This script then writes to a .csv file the time to heat paralysis (TKD) for each fly. Our data show that this automated DAM2 method is consistent and reliable. Meanwhile, activity profiles created from the activity count data are of interest. These activity profiles can be compiled and have the potential to expand heat tolerance assays to include the relatively unstudied behavioral components of heat tolerance. This protocol will describe in detail how to use the DAM2 system and the HoTDAM! software to estimate heat tolerance in D. melanogaster.

<meta charset="utf8"></head><body>Hitzetoleranz-Assays mit dem Drosophila Activity Monitor System: Ein Leitfaden für eine ausführbare Anwendung zur Datenanalyse

This report describes a method for measuring adult Drosophila melanogaster time to knockdown using a Drosophila Activity Monitor (DAM2) in response to an air conduction heat stressor within an incubator chamber. The DAM2 measures activity by recording individual fly movements as they cross an infrared beam. Data analysis is facilitated by a novel executable file created by the authors.

Hitzetoleranz-Assays mit dem Drosophila Activity Monitor System: Ein Leitfaden für eine ausführbare Anwendung zur Datenanalyse

The study of heat tolerance in&#8239;Drosophila melanogaster has been of particular interest to researchers for decades, with a common approach to ...

Novel Assay for Cold Nociception in Drosophila Larvae

How organisms sense and respond to noxious temperatures is still poorly understood. Further, the mechanisms underlying sensitization of the sensory machinery, such as in patients experiencing peripheral neuropathy or injury-induced sensitization, are not well characterized. The genetically tractable Drosophila model has been used to study the cells and genes required for noxious heat detection, which has yielded multiple conserved genes of interest. Little is known however about the cells and receptors important for noxious cold sensing. Although, Drosophila does not survive prolonged exposure to cold temperatures (&#8804;10 &#186;C), and will avoid cool, preferring warmer temperatures in behavioral preference assays, how they sense and possibly avoid noxious cold stimuli has only recently been investigated.
Here we describe and characterize the first noxious cold (&#8804;10 &#186;C) behavioral assay in Drosophila. Using this tool and assay, we show an investigator how to qualitatively and quantitatively assess cold nociceptive behaviors. This can be done under normal/healthy culture conditions, or presumably in the context of disease, injury or sensitization. Further, this assay can be applied to larvae selected for desired genotypes, which might impact thermosensation, pain, or nociceptive sensitization. Given that pain is a highly conserved process, using this assay to further study&#160;thermal nociception will likely glean important understanding of pain processes in other species, including vertebrates.

Novel Assay for Cold Nociception in Drosophila Larvae

Here we demonstrate a novel assay to study cold nociception in Drosophila larvae. This assay utilizes a custom-built Peltier probe capable of applying a focal noxious cold stimulus and results in quantifiable cold-specific behaviors. This technique will allow further cellular and molecular dissection of cold nociception.

Neuartige Assay für kalte Nozizeption in<em&gt; Drosophila</em&gt; Larvae

How organisms sense and respond to noxious temperatures is still poorly understood. Further, the mechanisms underlying sensitization of the sensory ...

Design and Analysis of Temperature Preference Behavior and its Circadian Rhythm in Drosophila

The circadian clock regulates many aspects of life, including sleep, locomotor activity, and body temperature (BTR) rhythms1,2. We recently identified a novel Drosophila circadian output, called the temperature preference rhythm (TPR), in which the preferred temperature in flies rises during the day and falls during the night 3. Surprisingly, the TPR and locomotor activity are controlled through distinct circadian neurons3. Drosophila locomotor activity is a well&#160;known circadian behavioral output and has provided strong contributions to the discovery of many conserved mammalian circadian clock genes and mechanisms4. Therefore, understanding TPR will lead to the identification of hitherto unknown molecular and cellular circadian mechanisms. Here, we describe how to perform and analyze the TPR assay. This technique not only allows for dissecting the molecular and neural mechanisms of TPR, but also provides new insights into the fundamental mechanisms of the brain functions that integrate different environmental signals and regulate animal behaviors. Furthermore, our recently published data suggest that the fly TPR shares features with the mammalian BTR3. Drosophila are ectotherms, in which the body temperature is typically behaviorally regulated. Therefore, TPR is a strategy used to generate a rhythmic body temperature in these flies5-8. We believe that further exploration of Drosophila TPR will facilitate the characterization of the mechanisms underlying body temperature control in animals.

Design and Analysis of Temperature Preference Behavior and its Circadian Rhythm in Drosophila

We recently identified a novel Drosophila circadian output, temperature preference rhythm (TPR), in which the preferred temperature in flies rises during the day and falls during the night. TPR is regulated independently from another circadian output, locomotor activity. Here&#160;we describe the design and analysis of TPR in Drosophila.

Design und Analyse des Temperaturpräferenzverhaltens und seines circadianen Rhythmus in Drosophila

The circadian clock regulates many aspects of life, including sleep, locomotor activity, and body temperature (BTR) rhythms1,2. We recently identified a ...

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High-Throughput Assays of Critical Thermal Limits in Insects

Upper and lower thermal limits of plants and animals are important predictors of their performance, survival, and geographic distributions, and are essential for predicting responses to climate change. This work describes two high-throughput protocols for measuring insect thermal limits: one for assessing critical thermal minima (CTmin), and the other for assessing heat knock down time (KDT) in response to a static heat stressor. In the CTmin assay, individuals are placed in an acrylic-jacketed column, subjected to a decreasing temperature ramp, and counted as they fall from their perches using an infrared sensor. In the heat KDT assay, individuals are contained in a 96 well plate, placed in an incubator set to a stressful, hot temperature, and video recorded to determine the time at which they can no longer remain upright and move. These protocols offer advantages over commonly used techniques. Both assays are low cost and can be completed relatively quickly (~2 h). The CTmin assay reduces experimenter error and can measure a large number of individuals at once. The heat KDT protocol generates a video record of each assay and thus removes experimenter bias and the need to continuously monitor individuals in real time.

Thermal limits can predict the environments organisms tolerate, which is valuable information in the face of rapid climate change. Described here are high-throughput protocols to assess critical thermal minima and heat knockdown time in insects. Both protocols maximize the throughput and minimize the cost of the assays.

High-Throughput-Tests kritischer thermischer Grenzwerte bei Insekten

Upper and lower thermal limits of plants and animals are important predictors of their performance, survival, and geographic distributions, and are ...

Determining Temperature Preference of Mosquitoes and Other Ectotherms

Most insects and other ectotherms have a relatively narrow optimal temperature window, and deviation from their optima can have significant effects on their fitness, as well as other characteristics. Consequently, many such ectotherms seek out their optimal temperature range. Although temperature preferences of mosquitoes and other insects have been well studied, the traditional experimental setup is performed using a temperature gradient on an aluminum surface in a highly enclosed space. In some cases, this equipment restricts many natural behaviors, such as flying, which may be important in preference selection.
The objective of this study is to observe insect preference for air temperature by using a two-chamber apparatus with sufficient room for flight. The two chambers consist of independent temperature-controlled incubators, each with a large aperture. The incubators are connected by these apertures using a short acrylic bridge. Inside the incubators are two netted cages, linked via the apertures and bridge, allowing the insects to freely fly between the different conditions. The acrylic bridge also acts as a temperature gradient between the two incubators.
Due to the spacious area in the cage and easy construction, this method can be used to study any small ectotherm and/or any manipulation which may alter temperature preference including sensory organ manipulation, diet, gut flora, and endosymbiont presence at biosafety levels 1 or 2 (BSL 1 or 2). Additionally, the apparatus can be used for the study of pathogen infection using further containment (e.g., inside of a biosafety cabinet) at BSL 3.

Insects have an optimal environmental temperature range which they seek to remain within, and many external and internal factors can alter this preference. Here, we describe a cost-effective and simple method to study temperature choice, which allows insects to freely exhibit their natural behaviors.

Bestimmung der Temperaturpräferenz von Moskitos und anderen Ektothermen

Most insects and other ectotherms have a relatively narrow optimal temperature window, and deviation from their optima can have significant effects on ...

Local Heat Probe Assay: A Method to Assess Nociception of High Temperatures in Drosophila Larvae

Source: Chattopadhyay, A., et al. <a href="https://www.jove.com/video/3837/" target="_blank">Local and Global Methods of Assessing Thermal Nociception in Drosophila Larvae</a>. J. Vis. Exp. (2012).
Drosophila larvae have dedicated sensory neurons&#8211;nociceptors&#8211;whose response to potentially harmful thermal stimuli triggers aversive&#8211;or so-called &#34;nocifensive&#34;&#8211;behaviors in the animal. This video describes a method to assess thermal nociception by recording larval behavior in response to local application of a heat probe onto the cuticle. This method is, therefore, called the local heat probe assay.

Lokaler Wärmesonden-Assay: Eine Methode zur Beurteilung der Nozizeption hoher Temperaturen bei Drosophila-Larven

Source: Chattopadhyay, A., et al. Local and Global Methods of Assessing Thermal Nociception in Drosophila Larvae. J. Vis. Exp. (2012).
Drosophila larvae ...

Ein Temperaturgradient Assay thermische Präferenzen der Drosophila Larven bestimmen

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