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ArticleBio-protocol2018

Flight and Climbing Assay for Assessing Motor Functions in

Steffy B Manjila, Gaiti Hasan

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Article in Bio-protocol, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Steffy B ManjilaNational Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India.
Gaiti HasanNational Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motor control requires the central nervous system to integrate different sensory inputs and convey this information to the relevant central pattern generator for execution of motor function through motor neurons and muscles. Proper motor control is essential for any mobile organism to survive and interact with the external environment. For flying insects, motor control is required for flying, walking, feeding and mating apart from other more advanced behaviours such as grooming and aggression. Any perturbation to the sensory input or malfunctioning of neural connections to the motor output can result in motor defects. Here, we describe simple protocols for assessing flight and climbing ability of fruit flies, which can be used as two general tests to assess their motor function.

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PMID34179270
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