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Neurobiology: Swimming at the Intersection of Light and Gravity
Sydney Popsuj1, Alberto Stolfi1
1Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Biological Sciences, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|February 26, 2020
Abstract:
Many animals use gravity as a spatial reference to help navigate their surroundings, but how they do so is not well understood. A new study reveals that a representative of our closest invertebrate relatives, the tunicate Ciona, processes light and gravity cues through a simple neural circuit to decide when and how to swim.

