Functional Connectomics: How Maggots Make Up Their Minds.

Curr Biol

Neurobiology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0357, USA. Electronic address:

Published: January 2017

How Drosophila larvae select one behavior or a sequence of behaviors, and then persist in the final one, has been addressed by a powerful combination of electron-microscopy reconstruction of neuronal connections, genetic manipulations, electrophysiology, and neuronal modeling. Surprisingly, reciprocal inhibitory synaptic connections are major players in choosing, sequencing and maintaining behaviors.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.11.031DOI Listing

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