Genetically encoded indicators of neuronal activity

MZ Lin, MJ Schnitzer - Nature neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Experimental efforts to understand how the brain represents, stores and processes
information require high-fidelity recordings of multiple different forms of neural activity within …

Neuroethology of olfactory-guided behavior and its potential application in the control of harmful insects

CE Reisenman, H Lei, PG Guerenstein - Frontiers in physiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Harmful insects include pests of crops and storage goods, and vectors of human and animal
diseases. Throughout their history, humans have been fighting them using diverse methods …

Memory-relevant mushroom body output synapses are cholinergic

O Barnstedt, D Owald, J Felsenberg, R Brain… - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Memories are stored in the fan-out fan-in neural architectures of the mammalian cerebellum
and hippocampus and the insect mushroom bodies. However, whereas key plasticity occurs …

Using an insect mushroom body circuit to encode route memory in complex natural environments

P Ardin, F Peng, M Mangan… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Ants, like many other animals, use visual memory to follow extended routes through complex
environments, but it is unknown how their small brains implement this capability. The …

Organization of olfactory centres in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae

O Riabinina, D Task, E Marr, CC Lin, R Alford… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Mosquitoes are vectors for multiple infectious human diseases and use a variety of sensory
cues (olfactory, temperature, humidity and visual) to locate a human host. A comprehensive …

Robust registration of calcium images by learned contrast synthesis

JA Bogovic, P Hanslovsky, A Wong… - 2016 IEEE 13th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-modal image registration is a challenging task that is vital to fuse complementary
signals for subsequent analyses. Despite much research into cost functions addressing this …

Organization of descending neurons in Drosophila melanogaster

CT Hsu, V Bhandawat - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Neural processing in the brain controls behavior through descending neurons (DNs)-
neurons which carry signals from the brain to the spinal cord (or thoracic ganglia in insects) …

Mechanisms of amphetamine action illuminated through optical monitoring of dopamine synaptic vesicles in Drosophila brain

Z Freyberg, MS Sonders, JI Aguilar, T Hiranita… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Amphetamines elevate extracellular dopamine, but the underlying mechanisms remain
uncertain. Here we show in rodents that acute pharmacological inhibition of the vesicular …

Hormonal modulation of pheromone detection enhances male courtship success

HH Lin, DS Cao, S Sethi, Z Zeng, JSR Chin… - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
During the lifespans of most animals, reproductive maturity and mating activity are highly
coordinated. In Drosophila melanogaster, for instance, male fertility increases with age, and …

Scribble scaffolds a signalosome for active forgetting

I Cervantes-Sandoval, M Chakraborty, C MacMullen… - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Forgetting, one part of the brain's memory management system, provides balance to the
encoding and consolidation of new information by removing unused or unwanted memories …