Reproductive tract of Drosophila

This picture shows part of the reproductive tract of the female fruit fly.



You can view a video of its movements. This lasts 25 seconds and was recorded 15 frames/second.

Same video - at different compressions (size shown)	Original speed (15 fps)	Reduced to 1.5 frames/second
Uncompressed windows avi	348 Mbytes	34 Mbytes
Huffy Compressed - this is a lossless compression analogous to a zip file. Only for windows (works in win2k, win XP, win ME), but it tis  less than a 20 kbyte free download  from its homepage at Berkeley	129 Mbytes	12 Mbytes
MS Video 9 Compressed - some blurring of the edges compared with original data	0.5 Mbyte	0.2 Mbytes
Qucktime compressed movie - small loss of quality	9.2 Mbyte	0.9 Mbyte

The AviLine program, to analyse these movements is available from this York page.

chris 2 sept 05