A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila
Moise Bonheur, Kurtis J. Swartz, Melissa G. Metcalf, Anna Zhukovskaya, Avirut Mehta, Kristin E. Connors, Julia G. Barasch, Xinke Wen, Andrew R. Jamieson, Kelsey C. Martin, Richard Axel, Daisuke Hattori
This paper develops a bidirectional neural activity reporter in Drosophila and uses it to study social behaviors, showing fruitless is required for male arousal neuron activation by female cues.
bioRxiv · Apr 10, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience