title: Behavioral neuroscience: Crawling is a no-brainer for fruit fly larvae.
abstract: How are stereotyped behaviors organized in a simple nervous system? A new study in the Drosophila larva reports that the foraging routine can be performed in the absence of any input from the brain.
authors.affiliation: EMBL/CRG Systems Biology Unit, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and UPF, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Riedl
authors.forename: Matthieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Louis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D063226:Central Pattern Generators / Q000502:physiology*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000502:physiology*; D005106:Exploratory Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D017952:Ganglia, Invertebrate / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement