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@inproceedings{573929,
author = {Vácha, Martin and Drštková, Dana and Půžová, Tereza},
address = {Bad Honnef (Germany)},
booktitle = {Biophysics of Magnetic Orientation in Animals.},
keywords = {magnetoreception insects periplanetta},
language = {eng},
location = {Bad Honnef (Germany)},
pages = {53-53},
publisher = {Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung},
title = {Behavioral non-conditioning assay in insect magnetosensitivity research.},
year = {2005}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 573929
AU - Vácha, Martin - Drštková, Dana - Půžová, Tereza
PY - 2005
TI - Behavioral non-conditioning assay in insect magnetosensitivity research.
PB - Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung
CY - Bad Honnef (Germany)
KW - magnetoreception insects periplanetta
N2 - Our goal was to call into action as simple as possible non-conditionig test of magnetosensitivity on american coackroach (Periplanetta americana) species widely used by insect neurophysiologists. We scored the number of main body axis rotations > 15 (body turns) of cockroaches in uniform light placed individually into Petri dishes. We compared the spontaneous (control) turn activity with activity observed within a period of intermittent geomagnetic field rotations (period 2: 11.30-13.00). We found a significant grow of the turn activity compared to control (Mann-Whitney, P = 0.01, n = 62/66) for period 2 with overrun to following period 3. We suppose the simplicity of the test to be its main virtue. Provided the non-conditioning cockroach test of magnetosensitivity turns out to be replicable and stable it could play a role in investigation of still unknown neural principles of insect magnetoreception by means of standart neuro-techniques.
ER -
VÁCHA, Martin, Dana DRŠTKOVÁ and Tereza PŮŽOVÁ. Behavioral non-conditioning assay in insect magnetosensitivity research. In \textit{Biophysics of Magnetic Orientation in Animals.}. Bad Honnef (Germany): Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung, 2005, p.~53-53, 64 pp.
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