Automated high-resolution pupae counting device
AssigneesConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Universidad Miguel Hernandez
InventorsRoberto SANTORO, Maria DOMINGUEZ CASTELLANO, Victor Javier RODRIGUEZ MILAN
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Abstract
Pupae counting device that allows the automatic quantification of the youth-adult transition in groups of flies, like Drosophila. It comprises a circular platform, one or more tube holders positioned on the platform, one or more sample tubes, inserted into each tube holder, and intended to contain the pupae, a camera for recording video and images, directed towards the platform, a central motor linked and rotating the platform in front of the camera, until a sample tube of interest is positioned in front of the camera, and an external motor positioned beside the platform, for rotating the sample tube of interest 360° over itself in front of the camera.
Claims9
An automated high-resolution pupae counting device that comprises:
- a platform,
- one or more tube holders arranged on the platform,
- one or more sample tubes, inserted into each tube holder, and intended to contain pupae,
- a camera for recording video and image, directed towards the platform (1), connected to an external device that quantifies the time and number of pupae contained in each sample tube,
- a central motor linked to the platform,
- being the device characterized in that the central motor rotates the platform until a sample tube of interest is positioned in front of the camera, and in that the device additionally comprises:
- an external motor positioned beside the platform, that rotates the sample tube of interest 360° over itself in front of the camera.
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