A single pair of interneurons commands the Drosophila feeding motor program

Thomas F. Flood, Shinya Iguchi, Michael Gorczyca, Benjamin White, Kei Ito and Motojiro Yoshihara ()
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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

Nature, 2013, vol. 499, issue 7456, 83-87

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.

Date: 2013
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