Developing neurons connect in specific and stereotyped ways to form the complex circuits
that underlie brain function. By comparison to earlier steps in neural development, progress …

Synapses are intercellular junctions specialized for fast, point-to-point information transfer
from a presynaptic neuron to a postsynaptic cell. At a synapse, a presynaptic terminal …

Understanding how genotypic variation results in phenotypic variation is especially difficult
for collective behaviour because group phenotypes arise from complex interactions among …

The success of Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism is largely due to the power of
forward genetic screens to identify the genes that are involved in a biological process …

▪ Abstract The guidance of axons during the establishment of the nervous system is
mediated by a variety of extracellular cues that govern cytoskeletal dynamics in axonal …

Neural development and the organization of complex neuronal circuits involve a number of
processes that require cell–cell interaction. During these processes, axons choose specific …

Abstract Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans (CSPGs) are a major component of the
extracellular matrix in the central nervous system (CNS) and play critical role in the …

Drosophila vision is mediated by inputs from three types of photoreceptor neurons; R1–R6
mediate achromatic motion detection, while R7 and R8 constitute two chromatic channels …

Drosophila melanogaster has been utilized to model human brain diseases. In most of these
invertebrate transgenic models, some aspects of human disease are reproduced. Although …

The visual system converts the distribution and wavelengths of photons entering the eye into
patterns of neuronal activity, which then drive motor and endocrine behavioral responses …