Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor signaling generates OFF selectivity in a simple visual circuit

Drosophila larvae are able to perform visually-guided behaviours yet the molecular and circuit mechanisms for discriminating changes in light intensity are not known. Here, the authors report that ON versus OFF discrimination results from opposing cholinergic and glutamatergic mechanisms.

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Main Authors: Bo Qin, Tim-Henning Humberg, Anna Kim, Hyong S. Kim, Jacob Short, Fengqiu Diao, Benjamin H. White, Simon G. Sprecher, Quan Yuan
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/e467524c74324b62a2891cf668aa2be6
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