The new version of the analysis software is online. It should be clean and will be the version coming with the paper.

I checked the putative non-flying flies we ordered. All are normal when grown at 18°. While developing at 25°, different phenotypes can be seen:
CyK: those flies have curled wings, but can fly.
U2: those flies have curled wings, cannot fly, but still beat their wings while walking (like if they could not figure out that they cannot fly ?).

other flies show no phenotype at all.

buridan analysis v.2.5 online:
analysis of single flies added, produce a different pdf file.
several minor changes accordingly to this analysis.

By looking at a way to simulate activity/inactivity pattern in the computer generated walk, I found this:

“Fractal time in animal behaviour: the movement activity of Drosophila” Blaine J. Cole 1993

I read it, now I need to search more in order to understand it: maybe we can find ideas to perform more analyses (or corrections to the version we have) and to get better simulated data (how to determine mu in the levy walks)

“Foraging Fruit Flies: Lagrangian and Eulerian, Descriptions of Insect Swarming”
Joseph D. Majkut
phd Thesis

mu has to be lower or equal to 3: that’s already some information!

ohh science: the closer we look, the most complex it becomes… I love it!