Functional Connectomics: How Maggots Make Up Their Minds
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Functional Analysis of the Larval Feeding Circuit in Drosophila
Published on: November 19, 2013
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1Neurobiology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0357, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|January 11, 2017
Abstract:
How Drosophila larvae select one behavior or a sequence of behaviors, and then persist in the final one, has been addressed by a powerful combination of electron-microscopy reconstruction of neuronal connections, genetic manipulations, electrophysiology, and neuronal modeling. Surprisingly, reciprocal inhibitory synaptic connections are major players in choosing, sequencing and maintaining behaviors.

