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A single pair of interneurons commands the Drosophila feeding motor program

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  • Thomas F. Flood

    (Deptartment of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School)

  • Shinya Iguchi

    (Deptartment of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School)

  • Michael Gorczyca

    (Deptartment of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School)

  • Benjamin White

    (Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Mental Health)

  • Kei Ito

    (Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan)

  • Motojiro Yoshihara

    (Deptartment of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School)

Abstract

A pair of Drosophila brain cells is identified and its activation alone is found to induce the fly’s complete feeding motor routine when artificially induced; suppressing or ablating these two neurons eliminates the sugar-induced feeding behaviour, but ablation of just one neuron results in asymmetric movements.

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  • Thomas F. Flood & Shinya Iguchi & Michael Gorczyca & Benjamin White & Kei Ito & Motojiro Yoshihara, 2013. "A single pair of interneurons commands the Drosophila feeding motor program," Nature, Nature, vol. 499(7456), pages 83-87, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:499:y:2013:i:7456:d:10.1038_nature12208
    DOI: 10.1038/nature12208
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