Parallel neural pathways in higher visual centers of the Drosophila brain that mediate wavelength-specific behavior

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Otsuna, Hideo ^a,b   Shinomiya, Kazunori ^a,c   Ito, Kei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Color vision; Drosophila; Higher visual center; Phototaxis; Wavelength dependent

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GAL4 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COLOR VISION; DROSOPHILA; HIGHER VISUAL CENTER; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHOTOTAXIS; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WAVELENGTH-DEPENDENT;

COLOR VISION; DROSOPHILA; HIGHER VISUAL CENTER; PHOTOTAXIS; WAVELENGTH-DEPENDENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84893676957     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2014.00008     Document Type: Article

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