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Octopamine fuels fighting flies
Christopher J Potter1, Liqun Luo
1Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
Nature Neuroscience
|August 30, 2008
Abstract:
The neural basis of aggression is poorly understood. A study in this issue used genetic scalpels to dissect the circuitry of the fly brain and identified a small cluster of octopaminergic neurons that can make a fly fighting mad.
