Tracking Sugar-Elicited Local Searching Behavior in DrosophilaManal Shakeel 1,2, Shivam Kaushik 3, Teiichi Tanimura 4, Axel Brockmann 1, Pinky Kain 3,5
1National Centre for Biological Sciences, 2The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, 3Regional Centre for Biotechnology, 4Neural Circuit Group, Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, 5Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
This protocol describes a behavioral assay for recording sugar-elicited search behavior using Drosophila melanogaster. The assay can be utilized to study feeding and foraging-related behaviors, as well as the underlying neuronal mechanisms.