Octopamine fuels fighting flies.

Nature Neuroscience
Christopher J Potter, Liqun Luo

Abstract

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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