Natural non-coding pumilio variants retune value-coding interneurons to bias Drosophila oviposition choices
Dorsa Motevalli, Robert Alfredson, Sydney Fogleman, Emmanuel Medrano, Yang Chen, William I. Silander, Toshihide Hige, Ulrich Stern, Chung-Hui Yang
The paper shows how natural variants in the pumilio gene alter neural circuits in Drosophila to influence oviposition choices by affecting sodium channel expression.
bioRxiv · Mar 7, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience