SEXRAT MALE: A smartphone and tablet application to annotate and process live sexual behavior in male rodents
| Autor: | Florencia Mata, Oscar Galicia-Castillo, Mario Buenrostro-Jáuregui, Alejandro Tapia-de Jesús, Michelle Gavia, César Hernández-Guerrero, Luis Miguel Rodríguez-Serrano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine Computer science Sexual Behavior Rodentia Behavioral neuroscience 03 medical and health sciences Intrusion 0302 clinical medicine Software Human–computer interaction Data file Animals Statistical software Behavior Animal business.industry General Neuroscience Neurosciences Mobile Applications Rats 030104 developmental biology Sexual behavior Wildcard Computers Handheld Smartphone business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Occurrence time |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 320:9-15 |
| ISSN: | 0165-0270 |
| Popis: | Background In behavioral neuroscience studies, it is essential to accurately and easily record rodent sexual behavior. However, current systems are complex, expensive and often require a computer that hinders their use in situ. New method SEXRAT MALE is new software for the real-time annotation and process of live sexual behavior in male rodents. Results SEXRAT MALE works on smartphones and tablets Android™ operating system, and soon on iOS™. This software uses a simple algorithm based on chronometry and the counting of the behavioral states that the user taps on the screen. It can annotate, count and time a complex sequence of behavioral states by a human observer, such as genital exploration, mounting, intrusion, ejaculation, and up to nine wildcard events established by the user, such as rearing and female receptivity events. SEXRAT MALE reports time, order, duration, intervals, and the simple statistics of all events in the session through data files, which are easily importable from any statistical software. SEXRAT MALE showed greater precision among both expert and naive observers analyzing sexual interaction, decreasing errors and providing greater accuracy of timing data. Additionally, it records and processes more information than the traditional recording, in terms of factors such as order, occurrence time, duration, events intervals, and other processed data. Comparison(s) with existing method Compared to the traditional, manual method, SEXRAT MALE is more accurate, reliable, and simplifies the process of recording and processing. Conclusions SEXRAT MALE provides a novel tool for accurately recording live male rodent sexual behavior. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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