A Magnetic Tether System to Investigate Visual and Olfactory Mediated Flight Control in Drosophila
Open Access
- 21 November 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MyJove Corporation in Journal of Visualized Experiments
- No. 21,p. e1063
- https://doi.org/10.3791/1063
Abstract
Here we describe how to tether a fly in an olfactory magnetic-tether (OMT) apparatus. We describe how to align the rare-earth magnets...This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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