Movie 3

Slow motion video of a beating Drosophila heart illustrating “inclined” contractions of a hypertrophied heart. Genotype: hand>UAS-Ras85DV12. The original video was captured at 207 fps.

A new method to characterize function of the Drosophila heart by means of optical flow

Hauke Mönck, David Toppe, Eva Michael, Stephan Sigrist, Vincent Richter, Diana Hilpert, Davide Raccuglia, Marina Efetova, and Martin Schwärzel

Journal of Experimental Biology 2017. 220:4644-4653; doi: 10.1242/jeb.164343