Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Functional architecture of reward learning in mushroom body extrinsic neurons of larval Drosophila

  • Timo Saumweber,
  • Astrid Rohwedder,
  • Michael Schleyer,
  • Katharina Eichler,
  • Yi-chun Chen,
  • Yoshinori Aso,
  • Albert Cardona,
  • Claire Eschbach,
  • Oliver Kobler,
  • Anne Voigt,
  • Archana Durairaja,
  • Nino Mancini,
  • Marta Zlatic,
  • James W. Truman,
  • Andreas S. Thum,
  • Bertram Gerber

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03130-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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The mushroom body of Drosophila integrates sensory information with past experience to guide behaviour. Here, the authors provide an atlas of the input and output neurons of the stage 3 larval mushroom body at the single-cell level, and analyse their function in learned and innate behaviours.