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Octopamine fuels fighting flies.

Christopher J Potter1, Liqun Luo.   

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The neural basis of aggression is poorly understood. A study in this issue used genetic scalpels to dissect the circuitry of the fly brain and identified a small cluster of octopaminergic neurons that can make a fly fighting mad.

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Year:  2008        PMID： 18725900     DOI： 10.1038/nn0908-989

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Nat Neurosci        ISSN： 1097-6256            Impact factor:   24.884


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1.  Identification of distinct tyraminergic and octopaminergic neurons innervating the central complex of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria.

Authors:  Uwe Homberg; Jutta Seyfarth; Ulrike Binkle; Maria Monastirioti; Mark J Alkema
Journal:  J Comp Neurol       Date:  2013-06-15       Impact factor: 3.215

2.  Drosophila Brainbow: a recombinase-based fluorescence labeling technique to subdivide neural expression patterns.

Authors:  Stefanie Hampel; Phuong Chung; Claire E McKellar; Donald Hall; Loren L Looger; Julie H Simpson
Journal:  Nat Methods       Date:  2011-02-06       Impact factor: 28.547

3.  Social environment influences performance in a cognitive task in natural variants of the foraging gene.

Authors:  Nancy R Kohn; Christopher J Reaume; Celine Moreno; James G Burns; Marla B Sokolowski; Frederic Mery
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2013-12-12       Impact factor: 3.240
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