Nature Communications (Oct 2018)
Hub-organized parallel circuits of central circadian pacemaker neurons for visual photoentrainment in Drosophila
Abstract
The central circadian clock in Drosophila is made up of ~ 150 anatomically distributed neurons; the circuits underlying photoentrainment is unclear. This study describes ex vivo patch-clamp recording of the eye-mediated light response of all known circadian clock neurons, and shows that they are organized in parallel circuits centered around a hub.