Animal Behavior: A Neural Basis of Individuality

Suguru Takagi; Richard Benton

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.052

Animal Behavior: A Neural Basis of Individuality

Curr Biol. 2020 Jun 22;30(12):R710-R712. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.052.

Authors

Suguru Takagi¹, Richard Benton²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
² Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: Richard.Benton@unil.ch.

PMID: 32574634
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.052

Abstract

Behavior can vary greatly even between genetically identical animals, but what determines such individuality? New work reveals that inter-individual differences in wiring of visual interneurons in Drosophila, arising from stochastic developmental events, underlie fly-specific object orientation abilities.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Behavior, Animal*
Drosophila*
Orientation