Abhijit Das, Albert Chiang, Sejal Davla, Rashi Priya, Heinrich Reichert, K VijayRaghavan, Veronica Rodrigues
BACKGROUND: The antennal lobe of Drosophila is perhaps one of the best understood neural circuits, because of its well-described anatomical and functional organization and ease of genetic manipulation. Olfactory lobe interneurons - key elements of information processing in this network - are thought to be generated by three identified central brain neuroblasts, all of which generate projection neurons. One of these neuroblasts, located lateral to the antennal lobe, also gives rise to a population of local interneurons, which can either be inhibitory (GABAergic) or excitatory (cholinergic)...
January 26, 2011: Neural Systems & Circuits