Here, we present a protocol to quantify the avoidance of stressed individuals. This paradigm is powerful yet user-friendly and can be used to assess the influence of genes and environment on one kind of social interaction in Drosophila melanogaster.
Fernandez, R. W., Nurilov, M., Feliciano, O., McDonald, I. S., Simon, A. F. Straightforward Assay for Quantification of Social Avoidance in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Vis. Exp. (94), e52011, doi:10.3791/52011 (2014).