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SUBMITTER: Oswald M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3266071 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oswald Matthew M Rymarczyk Beata B Chatters Alastair A Sweeney Sean T ST
Fly 20110914 4
We describe a novel thermosensitive escape behavior in Drosophila larvae and a simple assay to accurately define the response temperature. When a larva is placed in a droplet of water that is subsequently heated, a stereotypical escape response is robustly elicited at 29°C. Larvae defective for the painless TRP receptor, or blocked in the function of class IV multi-dendritic sensory dendrites respond to this stimulus at reproducibly higher temperature (34°C). The escape response has novel behavi ...[more]