How Does a Fly React So Fast to Danger? (IMAGE)

Florida Atlantic University

How Does a Fly React So Fast to Danger?

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The image shows axo-axonic innervation in the nerve cord of the fruit fly. Dye-filled giant fiber axons (purple) serve as command neurons to drive escape behavior in the fly. A population of cells (green) has been identified that synapses directly onto the axons of the giant fibers, which serve to adjust the excitability threshold in this circuit. 

 

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Casey Spencer, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University

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