Behavioral endocrinology: lighting up peptidergic neurons that mediate a complex behavior.
A recent study in which a calcium-sensitive fluorescent protein was expressed in transgenic Drosophila has shown that a command neuropeptide that turns on a complex behavioral sequence elicits a spatially and temporally complex pattern of neuropeptide signals.
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Cornell University, Department of Entomology, 5130 Comstock Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. je24@cornell.edu
D000818:Animals; D030801:Animals, Genetically Modified; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000254:growth & development*; D007301:Insect Hormones / Q000378:metabolism; D007814:Larva / Q000254:growth & development*; D018978:Molting / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism*; D009479:Neuropeptides / Q000378:metabolism; D018000:Receptors, Peptide / Q000378:metabolism
D007301:Insect Hormones; D009479:Neuropeptides; D018000:Receptors, Peptide; C474803:ecdysis-triggering hormone receptor, Drosophila; C403307:ecdysis-triggering hormone, Drosophila; C042645:eclosion hormone; D002118:Calcium