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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Drosophila Neurobiology

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The cover of Drosophila Neurobiology shows the neurons of the giant fiber system. This simple "escape" circuit in adult Drosophila relays sensory information to a large "jump" muscle and the indirect flight muscles in the thorax.

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