No-bridge of Drosophila melanogaster: portrait of a structural brain mutant of the central complex.

doi:10.3109/01677069209083444

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No-bridge of Drosophila melanogaster: portrait of a structural brain mutant of the central complex.

Journal of neurogenetics - 1 Sept 1992

Strauss R, Hanesch U, Kinkelin M, Wolf R, Heisenberg M

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The mutant no-bridge (nobKS49) has its name from a structural defect in the protocerebral bridge of the central complex. This rod-shaped neuropil in nobKS49 has a large gap at the sagittal midplane, with some of the missing material accumulated more laterally. Mutant nob flies have a reduced maxi...

Topics

Animals
Behavior, Animal
Brain Mapping
Choice Behavior
Drosophila melanogaster
Exploratory Behavior
Female
Light
Male
Mosaicism
Motor Activity
Mutation
Phenotype
Video Recording

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