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Octopamine fuels fighting flies
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Octopamine fuels fighting flies
Nat Neurosci.
2008 Sep.
Abstract
The neural basis of aggression is poorly understood. A study in this issue used genetic scalpels to dissect the circuitry of the fly brain and identified a small cluster of octopaminergic neurons that can make a fly fighting mad.
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A subset of octopaminergic neurons are important for Drosophila aggression.Nat Neurosci. 2008 Sep;11(9):1059-67. doi: 10.1038/nn.2164. Nat Neurosci. 2008. PMID: 19160504
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