{"id":3371,"date":"2014-10-31T01:07:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T06:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2014-10-31T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:26:35","slug":"is-this-fruit-fly-being-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/is-this-fruit-fly-being-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this fruit fly being friendly?<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3372\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/7572940872_3cdb0bae89_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3372\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/7572940872_3cdb0bae89_b.jpg\" alt=\"Through computer analysis, scientists have developed a more objective way of analysing the social behaviour of fruit flies, which could lead to insights into the genetic and neurological mechanisms underlying our own social behaviour. (Photo credit: John Tann, via Flickr)\" width=\"350\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/7572940872_3cdb0bae89_b.jpg 350w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/7572940872_3cdb0bae89_b-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Through computer analysis, scientists have developed a more objective way of analysing the social behaviour of fruit flies, which could lead to insights into the genetic and neurological mechanisms underlying our own social behaviour. (Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/31031835@N08\/7572940872\">John Tann, via Flickr<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new computer-based tool for analyzing the social behaviour of fruit flies and could tell us more about how genes affect social behaviour. Previous studies of social behaviour in fruit flies relied on researchers to judge for themselves what constituted a true social interaction.<\/p>\n<p>The computer method uses machine vision to analyze the distance between the flies, their angle of orientation and how long they hold the pose. The technique was used to demonstrate that mutations affecting\u00a0the ability of the flies to smell and taste also had significant effects on their social interactions.<\/p>\n<p>The authors suggest that the method could be applied to any type of animal interaction. They also note that research of this type could help decode the genetic and neurological mechanisms that underlie social behaviour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/10\/10\/20140749.abstract?sid=0041b728-c9f5-4264-82d9-fad88689afd8\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Biology Letters\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>October 28, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utm.utoronto.ca\/biology\/people\/levine-joel\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Levine<\/a>, University of Toronto Mississauga, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new computer-based tool for analyzing the social behaviour of fruit flies and could tell us more about how genes affect social behaviour. Previous studies of social behaviour in fruit flies relied on researchers to judge for themselves what constituted a true social interaction. The computer method uses machine vision to analyze the distance between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/7572940872_3cdb0bae89_b.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Sn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3393,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions\/3393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}