Octopamine fuels fighting flies.
The neural basis of aggression is poorly understood. A study in this issue used genetic scalpels to dissect the circuitry of the fly brain and identified a small cluster of octopaminergic neurons that can make a fly fighting mad.
Potter
Christopher J
CJ
Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
Luo
Liqun
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D000374:Aggression; D000818:Animals; D004175:Diptera / Q000502:physiology*; D017952:Ganglia, Invertebrate / Q000166:cytology; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases / Q000235:genetics; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D009655:Octopamine / Q000502:physiology*
D009655:Octopamine; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases; C023205:tyramine beta-hydroxylase