Learning and memory using Drosophila melanogaster: a focus on advances made in the fifth decade of research

RL Davis - Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the last decade, researchers using Drosophila melanogaster have made extraordinary
progress in uncovering the mysteries underlying learning and memory. This progress has …

Neural mechanisms of reward in insects

CJ Perry, AB Barron - Annual review of entomology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Reward seeking is a major motivator and organizer of behavior, and animals readily learn to
modify their behavior to more easily obtain reward, or to respond to stimuli that are predictive …

A complete electron microscopy volume of the brain of adult Drosophila melanogaster

Z Zheng, JS Lauritzen, E Perlman, CG Robinson… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Drosophila melanogaster has a rich repertoire of innate and learned behaviors. Its 100,000-
neuron brain is a large but tractable target for comprehensive neural circuit mapping. Only …

Sensory integration and neuromodulatory feedback facilitate Drosophila mechanonociceptive behavior

C Hu, M Petersen, N Hoyer, B Spitzweck… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Nociception is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism to encode and process harmful
environmental stimuli. Like most animals, Drosophila melanogaster larvae respond to a …

Communication from learned to innate olfactory processing centers is required for memory retrieval in Drosophila

MJ Dolan, G Belliart-Guérin, AS Bates, S Frechter… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The behavioral response to a sensory stimulus may depend on both learned and innate
neuronal representations. How these circuits interact to produce appropriate behavior is …

The making of the Drosophila mushroom body

S Lin - Frontiers in Physiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The mushroom body (MB) is a computational center in the Drosophila brain. The intricate
neural circuits of the mushroom body enable it to store associative memories and process …

[HTML][HTML] Structured sampling of olfactory input by the fly mushroom body

Z Zheng, F Li, C Fisher, IJ Ali, N Sharifi, S Calle-Schuler… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Associative memory formation and recall in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is
subserved by the mushroom body (MB). Upon arrival in the MB, sensory information …

Response competition between neurons and antineurons in the mushroom body

E Vrontou, LN Groschner, S Szydlowski, R Brain… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The mushroom bodies of Drosophila contain circuitry compatible with race models of
perceptual choice. When flies discriminate odor intensity differences, opponent pools of αβ …

Advances in the labelling and selective manipulation of synapses

B Timalsina, S Lee, BK Kaang - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Synapses are highly specialized neuronal structures that are essential for
neurotransmission, and they are dynamically regulated throughout the lifetime. Although …

Synaptic organization of the Drosophila antennal lobe and its regulation by the Teneurins

TJ Mosca, L Luo - Elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Understanding information flow through neuronal circuits requires knowledge of their
synaptic organization. In this study, we utilized fluorescent pre-and postsynaptic markers to …