The Serotonergic Central Nervous System of the Drosophila Larva: Anatomy and Behavioral Function

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Huser, Annina ^a   Rohwedder, Astrid ^a,e   Apostolopoulou, Anthi A ^a,e   Widmann, Annekathrin ^a,e   Pfitzenmaier, Johanna E ^a,e   Maiolo, Elena M ^a   Selcho, Mareike ^b   Pauls, Dennis ^b   von Essen, Alina ^a   Gupta, Tripti ^a   Sprecher, Simon G ^a   Birman, Serge ^c   Riemensperger, Thomas ^d   Stocker, Reinhard F ^a   Thum, Andreas S ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUGAR;

ABDOMINAL GANGLION; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CELL LEVEL; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HEMISPHERE; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOTAXIS; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SUBESOPHAGEAL GANGLION; THORACIC GANGLION;

ANIMALS; APPETITE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBRUM; CHEMOTAXIS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; LEARNING; LIGHT; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS; SEROTONIN; SMELL; SYNAPSES; TASTE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84867636859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047518     Document Type: Article

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