Teaching report: the use of Drosophila melanogaster larval thermosensitive escape behaviour as a model system to demonstrate sensory function

TY - JOUR

T1 - Teaching report

T2 - the use of Drosophila melanogaster larval thermosensitive escape behaviour as a model system to demonstrate sensory function

AU - Harrison, Adrian B

AU - Oswald, Matthew

AU - Sweeney, Sean T

PY - 2011/12

Y1 - 2011/12

N2 - We describe how a novel thermosensitive escape behaviour in Drosophila larvae can be used to teach neurobiology principles to both undergraduates and school children. The assays are inexpensive, robust and reliably accurate employing apparatus readily available in most science classrooms. The use of Drosophila avoids the employment of vertebrate models and the ethical and expense issues that this entails. We use this practical to effectively teach the principals of calibration and neural sensory responses to post-16-year-old students and undergraduate students.

AB - We describe how a novel thermosensitive escape behaviour in Drosophila larvae can be used to teach neurobiology principles to both undergraduates and school children. The assays are inexpensive, robust and reliably accurate employing apparatus readily available in most science classrooms. The use of Drosophila avoids the employment of vertebrate models and the ethical and expense issues that this entails. We use this practical to effectively teach the principals of calibration and neural sensory responses to post-16-year-old students and undergraduate students.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84855238308&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s10158-011-0123-4

DO - 10.1007/s10158-011-0123-4

M3 - Article

C2 - 21997164

VL - 11

SP - 109

EP - 112

JO - Invertebrate neuroscience : IN

JF - Invertebrate neuroscience : IN

SN - 1354-2516

IS - 2

ER -