Electrical synapses mediate visual approach behavior
Giovanni Frighetto, Mark Dombrovski, L Castillo…·Mark Arthur Frye
The paper identifies LC17 neurons and their electrical synapses as critical for visual approach behavior in fruit flies.
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Giovanni Frighetto, Mark Dombrovski, L Castillo…·Mark Arthur Frye
The paper identifies LC17 neurons and their electrical synapses as critical for visual approach behavior in fruit flies.
Mark Dombrovski, Yixin Zang, Giovanni Frighetto…·S Lawrence Zipursky
The paper identifies molecular gradients in Drosophila neurons that regulate synaptic connectivity for visuomotor transformation.
Shivan L. Bonanno, Piero Sanfilippo, Aditya Eamani…·David E. Krantz
The paper develops a method to tag endogenous GPCRs in Drosophila for localization studies and uses it to investigate receptor distribution and function in neural circuits.
Piero Sanfilippo, Alexander J. Kim, Anuradha Bhukel…·S Lawrence Zipursky
The paper maps neurotransmitter receptor subtypes and protein complexes to synapses in Drosophila using molecular and connectomic techniques.