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SUBMITTER: Fotowat H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3817277 | biostudies-other | 2009 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Fotowat Haleh H Fayyazuddin Amir A Bellen Hugo J HJ Gabbiani Fabrizio F
Journal of neurophysiology 20090527 2
Drosophila melanogaster exhibits a robust escape response to objects approaching on a collision course. Although a pair of large command interneurons called the giant fibers (GFs) have been postulated to trigger such behaviors, their role has not been directly demonstrated. Here, we show that escape from visual stimuli like those generated by approaching predators does not rely on the activation of the GFs and consists of a more complex and less stereotyped motor sequence than that evoked by the ...[more]