title: What can fruit flies teach us about karate?
abstract: Understanding the logic behind how a fruit fly's brain tells it to groom its body parts in a stereotyped order might help us understand other behaviours that also involve a series of actions.
authors.affiliation: Helen H Yang is in the Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States.
authors.forename: Helen H
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5140-9664
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Thomas R Clandinin is in the Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States trc@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: Thomas R
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6277-6849
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Clandinin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000502:physiology*; D006120:Grooming / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: action selection; behavioral choice; competing motor programs; competitive queuing; grooming sequence; serial behavior