Go behind the scenes at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus, where scientists built a custom recording studio to study fruit fly courtship songs. Male fruit flies produce courtship songs by vibrating their wings, using cues from females and the environment to decide when to sing and how. This mating ritual is a powerful model for uncovering how the nervous system enables a complex behavior. Recording this behavior is tough with the currently available devices, so Janelia’s Stern Lab and the Janelia Experimental Technology support team created Song Torrent—an open-source system capturing high-resolution audio and video of 96 individual flies or pairs of flies at once. With modular design, LED arrays for optogenetics, affordable off-the-shelf components, and open-source software, Song Torrent can help labs everywhere study insect behavior.
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