Recording Lifetime Behavior and Movement in an Invertebrate Model
Figure 1
Overview of the behavior monitor system.
(A) The hardware of the BMS consists of one 9-cage behavior arena, lighting, two cameras and a computer. Each cage has two fixed positions at the bottom to provide water and food (not depicted) to individually housed flies. (B) 3-D coordinate trajectories are generated by the software of the BMS from left and right video images taken by the two cameras. (C) The BMS software automates classification of six behaviors color coded in the ethogram based on the activity values and relative position of the fly to water and food sources using 3D trajectory data.