Volume 16 Issue 1, January 2011

Left, Drosophila melanogaster – electrophysiology is used to record from an awake behaving fly. Centre, Apis mellifera – bees leave the research hive to forage and explore the environment outside the laboratory. Upper right, Danio rerio - swimming is used as a behavioral readout for various tasks in zebrafish. Lower right, Caenorhabditis elegans – green fluorescent protein highlighting the mechanosensory neurons in a freely moving worm. The photograph of C. elegans was kindly provided by Brent Neumann. For more info on this topic, please refer to the article by Burne et al on pages 7–16.