The complete connectome of a learning and memory centre in an insect brain

Nature

Volumn 548, Issue 7666, 2017, Pages 175-182

  Eichler, Katharina ^a,b   Li, Feng ^a   Litwin Kumar, Ashok ^c   Park, Youngser ^d   Andrade, Ingrid ^a   Schneider Mizell, Casey M ^a   Saumweber, Timo ^e   Huser, Annina ^b   Eschbach, Claire ^a   Gerber, Bertram ^e,f   Fetter, Richard D ^a   Truman, James W ^a   Priebe, Carey E ^d   Abbott, L F ^c   Thum, Andreas S ^b,h   Zlatic, Marta ^a,g   Cardona, Albert ^a,g  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^d Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OCTOPAMINE;

BRAIN; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; INSECT; LARVA; LEARNING; MEMORY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DROSOPHILA; HEMISPHERE; KENYON CELL; MEMORY; MUSHROOM BODY; MUSHROOM BODY OUTPUT NEURON; NERVE CELL; NEURITE OUTGROWTH; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING STATE NETWORK; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; LARVA; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGICAL FEEDBACK; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; LARVA; MEMORY; MUSHROOM BODIES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 85027300485     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature23455     Document Type: Article

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