Salt Avoidance CantonS Final Results

on Sunday, April 27th, 2025 11:30 | by

CantonS under bluelight

Preference Index: (Pur-Salz)/(Pur+Salz+Neutral)

Stichprobengröße N: 20 jeweils

CantonS under redlight

Preference Index: (Pur-Salz)/(Pur+Salz+Neutral)

Stichprobengröße N: 20 jeweils

Gustatory Preference Control Experiment CantonS Blue/Redlight

on Monday, April 14th, 2025 1:56 | by

Salt Avoidance CantonS

on Monday, April 14th, 2025 1:37 | by

Bluelight

PI: (Pur-Salz)/(Pur+Salz+Neutral)

Stichprobengröße: N(0M) = 12; N(0,025M) = 4; N(0,5) = 12; N(1,5M) = 13; N(2,5M) = 12; N(3,5M) = 10

Redlight

PI: (Pur-Salz)/(Pur+Salz+Neutral)

Stichprobengröße: N(0M) = 14; N(0,025M) = 4; N(0,5) = 13; N(1,5M) = 12; N(2,5M) = 13; N(3,5M) = 10

Salt Avoidance CantonS

on Monday, April 7th, 2025 12:48 | by

Stichprobengröße pro Gruppe: N = 10

PI: (Pur-Salz)/(Pur+Salz+Neutral)

Stichprobengröße pro Gruppe: N = 10 und bei 0M N = 15

PI:(Pur-Salz)/(Pur+Salz+Neutral)

Salt avoidance under blue light canton S

on Monday, March 24th, 2025 1:08 | by

Salt avoidance under blue & redlight

on Sunday, March 9th, 2025 5:51 | by

Salt Avoidance under blue & red light

on Monday, March 3rd, 2025 1:55 | by

Salt Avoidance under blue & red light

on Monday, February 17th, 2025 11:25 | by

First trial of (UAS-ChR2-XXL x MB143B) salt avoidance under blue and red light.

Gustatory preference results of Canton S larvae

on Monday, January 27th, 2025 11:46 | by

Results show the gustatory preference for Canton S larvae under blue light. Positive PIs indicate a preference for the first named side of the petri dish e.g. positive PIs in Zucker-Pure group show larvae preferred the side of the sucrose substituted agarose gel.

Drosophila behavioural flexibility towards food (3)

on Saturday, February 11th, 2017 10:21 | by

This time I tried to induce a kind of Garcia effect (eating something, feeling sick and then avoiding eating that again) in Drosophila. As one can see in the video below, Drosophila show inhibited proboscis extension response (PER) right after the onset of the US (intestinal discomfort).

 

However, the conditioned response is extinguished after several hours. I tried to use groups of 20 starved flies on yeast+water for 2h, food + 0.1% hydrogen peroxyde for 1h, starving with nothing for 1h (always inside vials), and then testing with conditioned food against another food for 2h (inside Petri dishes). It didn’t work: in the end they show the same preference as controls (without hydrogen peroxyde). I tried to condition sucrose, glycine, pineapple juice (and then test against apple juice) and nothing, the flies avoid at first but once the swelling goes away, they forget or don’t associate anything bad or sufficiently bad with that food anymore, and continue to prefer it.

I also confirmed the PER suppression following conditioning with quinine reported in [C. Keene A, Masek P. Optogenetic Induction of Aversive Taste Memory. Neuroscience. 2012;222:173-180]. However, it is also extinguished minutes (~30) after the conditioning, as their results also show (in my case, I used sucrose instead of fructose):

(my results:)

(their results:)