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SUBMITTER: Lai JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3289363 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120130 7
Most animals exhibit innate auditory behaviors driven by genetically hardwired neural circuits. In Drosophila, acoustic information is relayed by Johnston organ neurons from the antenna to the antennal mechanosensory and motor center (AMMC) in the brain. Here, by using structural connectivity analysis, we identified five distinct types of auditory projection neurons (PNs) interconnecting the AMMC, inferior ventrolateral protocerebrum (IVLP), and ventrolateral protocerebrum (VLP) regions of the c ...[more]