Nino Mancini, Juliane Thoener, Esmeralda Tafani, Dennis Pauls, Oded Mayseless, Martin Strauch, Katharina Eichler, Andrew Champion, Oliver Kobler, Denise Weber, Edanur Sen, Aliće Weiglein, Volker Hartenstein, Harrys Chytoudis, Tihana Jovanic, Andreas S Thum, Astrid Rohwedder, Michael Schleyer, Bertram Gerber
Larvae of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster are a powerful study case for understanding the neural circuits underlying behavior. Indeed, the numerical simplicity of the larval brain has permitted the reconstruction of its synaptic connectome, and genetic tools for manipulating single, identified neurons allow neural circuit function to be investigated with relative ease and precision. We focus on one of the most complex neurons in the brain of the larva (of either sex), the GABAergic anterior paired lateral neuron (APL)...
September 20, 2023: Journal of Neuroscience