Behavioral endocrinology: lighting up peptidergic neurons that mediate a complex behavior

Curr Biol. 2006 Sep 5;16(17):R682-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.08.007.

Abstract

A recent study in which a calcium-sensitive fluorescent protein was expressed in transgenic Drosophila has shown that a command neuropeptide that turns on a complex behavioral sequence elicits a spatially and temporally complex pattern of neuropeptide signals.

Publication types

  • Kommentar

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Animals, Genetically Modified
  • Behavior, Animal / physiology*
  • Calcium / metabolism
  • Drosophila melanogaster / growth & development*
  • Insect Hormones / metabolism
  • Larva / growth & development*
  • Molting / physiology*
  • Neurons / metabolism*
  • Neuropeptides / metabolism
  • Receptors, Peptide / metabolism

Substances

  • Insect Hormones
  • Neuropeptides
  • Receptors, Peptide
  • ecdysis-triggering hormone receptor, Drosophila
  • ecdysis-triggering hormone, Drosophila
  • eclosion hormone
  • Calcium