Neural activity is modulated over different timescales encompassing subseconds to hours,
reflecting changes in external environment, internal state and behavior. Using Drosophila as …

Innate behavior, such as courtship behavior, is controlled by a genetically defined set of
neurons. To date, it remains challenging to visualize and artificially control the neural …

Males of Drosophila melanogaster exhibit stereotypic courtship behavior through which they
assess potential mates by processing multimodal sensory information. Although previous …

Social enrichment or social isolation affects a range of innate behaviors, such as sex,
aggression, and sleep, but whether there is a shared mechanism is not clear. Here, we …

Organisms rarely act in isolation. Their decisions and movements are often heavily
influenced by direct and indirect interactions with conspecifics. For example, we each …

Connectomics research has made it more feasible to explore how neural circuits can
generate multiple outputs. Female sexual drive provides a good model for understanding …

Robust innate behaviours are attractive systems for genetically dissecting how
environmental cues are perceived and integrated to generate complex behaviours. During …

Newborns and hatchlings can perform incredibly sophisticated behaviors, but many animals
abstain from sexual activity at the beginning of life. Hormonal changes have long been …

Goal-directed social behaviours such as mating and fighting are associated with scalable
and persistent internal states of emotion, motivation, arousal or drive. How those internal …

Summary Background Courtship behavior in Drosophila has been causally linked to the
activity of the heterogeneous set of∼ 1500 neurons that express the sex-specific transcripts …