Drosophila olfaction: the end of stereotypy?
Recent work has demonstrated substantial wiring and functional stereotypy in the fly olfactory system. In this issue of Neuron, Murthy et al. demonstrate that in the mushroom body, a site of olfactory associative learning, this initial peripheral stereotypy gives way to functionally nonstereotyped circuits.
Cachero
Sebastian
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Division of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK.
Jefferis
Gregory S X E
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