Thermosensory processing in the Drosophila brain

Wendy W. Liu, Ofer Mazor and Rachel I. Wilson ()
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Wendy W. Liu: Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ofer Mazor: Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Rachel I. Wilson: Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

Nature, 2015, vol. 519, issue 7543, 353-357

Abstract: The mechanisms of thermosensing in the Drosophila brain are elucidated by the identification of distinct classes of projection neurons which are excited either by external cooling or warming, or both; the neurons that are excited by warming participate in complex circuits that incorporate crossover inhibition from cool receptor neurons.

Date: 2015
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