The love song of the fly shows how the nervous system initiates, controls and utilized behavior

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 22:30 in Biology & Nature

Neurobiologists used the mating ritual of the fruit fly to study how the nervous system initiates, controls and utilizes behavior. Using newly developed thermogenetic methods, the researchers were able to initiate the courtship song of the male fly by “remote control”, and study the involved neural networks.

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