Feeding behaviour articles within Nature Methods

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• Brief Communication | 23 January 2017

  Optogenetic inhibition of behavior with anion channelrhodopsins

  Anion channelrhodopsins are light-sensitive chloride channels that can be used as optogenetic inhibitors. Mohammad et al. report their application in Drosophila, showing that various behaviors can be inhibited in a light-dependent manner.

  • Farhan Mohammad
  • , James C Stewart
  •  & Adam Claridge-Chang

• Technology Feature | 30 June 2015

  Metabolism: feeding fruit flies

  Measuring how much a fruit fly eats opens the door to studies of metabolism and aging. But the assays are hotly debated.

  • Vivien Marx

• Tools in Brief | 29 September 2014

  Automated analysis of fly feeding

• This Month | 29 April 2014

  William Ja

  Lessons from the volleyball court help to compare ways to measure how much flies eat.

  • Vivien Marx

• Analysis | 30 March 2014

  Quantifying Drosophila food intake: comparative analysis of current methodology

  This Analysis compares four commonly used assays to measure food intake in flies and identifies radioisotope-labeling and the capillary feeder (CAFE) as the most reproducible and sensitive.

  • Sonali A Deshpande
  • , Gil B Carvalho
  •  & William W Ja

• Article | 17 November 2013

  A holidic medium for Drosophila melanogaster

  A chemically defined diet for Drosophila melanogaster is described. It should enable a variety of behavioral, metabolic and fitness studies where controlled nutrition is important.

  • Matthew D W Piper
  • , Eric Blanc
  •  & Linda Partridge