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Neuroethology: a neuronal self-defense mechanism in fly larvae
1Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Lehrstuhl für Genetik und Neurobiologie, Theodor-Boveri-Institut, Biozentrum, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany. afiala@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
Current Biology : CB
|February 14, 2008
Abstract:
The detection of harmful stimuli - nociception - has been suggested to rely on evolutionarily conserved neuronal mechanisms. A recent study has shown how the activity of nociceptive neurons in Drosophila larvae triggers a defense mechanism against a parasitoid wasp.
