The Drosophila melanogaster olfactory system is one of the most intensively studied parts of the nervous system in any animal. Composed of ~50 independent olfactory neuron classes, with several ...

This suggests that the VNC has the capability to ... The study of the larval behaviors and neural circuits in Drosophila melanogaster as a model ... Wu, M., Namiki, S., et al. (2017). Feature ...

These images depict the CNS (brain and ventral nerve cord, VNC) dissected from those 1- to 5 d-old adult flies that ... MD Gordon, K Scott, Motor control in a Drosophila taste circuit. Neuron 61, ...

Drosophila melanogaster olfactory neurons have long been thought to express only one chemosensory receptor gene family. There are two main olfactory receptor gene families in Drosophila, the odorant ...

Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph of Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly. For years, scientists have been mapping the fly’s neurons and synapses in an effort to create a ...

In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, ∼150 brain pacemaker neurons that express the highly conserved circadian clock genes work together to generate a robust diurnal rhythmicity in locomotion and ...

Introduction. Research conducted in evolutionarily distant animals has contributed to our current understanding of olfactory synaptic circuits (Hildebrand and Shepherd, 1997; Ache and Young, 2005).The ...