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Neuroscience: Tantalized Flies Are Primed for Satiety
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|November 6, 2019
Abstract:
How animals maintain and switch between distinct motivational states is an important question in neuroscience. New work in Drosophila identifies an excitatory neuronal circuit that builds up mating drive while priming itself for satiety.

