The nervous system of insects is profoundly reorganised during metamorphosis, affecting
the fate of different types of neuron in different ways. Almost all adult motor neurons derive …

A variety of approaches have been developed to localize neurons and neural elements in
nervous system tissues that make and use acetylcholine (ACh) as a neurotransmitter …

Golgi studies of the neurons in the optic lobes of Drosophila melanogaster reveal a large
number of neuronal cell types. These can be classified as either columnar or tangential …

The embryonic lethal abnormal visual system (elav) gene of Drosophila melanogaster is
required for the development and maintenance of the nervous system. Transcripts from this …

Here we report the description of the Drosophila gene futsch, which encodes a protein
recognized by the monoclonal antibody 22C10 that has been widely used to visualize …

The transformation of an unpatterned epithelium into a patterned one is a fundamental issue
in morphogenesis. This transformation occurs in a dramatic fashion in the developing eye …

Mutations at the disconnected (disco) locus of Drosophila melanogaster disrupt neural cell
patterning in the visual system, leading to the loss of many optic lobe neurons. Drosophila's …

The circadian timekeeping system of Drosophila functions from the first larval instar (L1)
onward but is not known to require the expression of clock genes in larvae. We show that …

In insects, the ecdysteroids act to transform the CNS from its larval to its adult form. A key
gene in this response is the ecdysone receptor (EcR), which has been shown in Drosophila …

The larval and early pupal development of the optic lobes in Drosophila is described
qualitatively and quantitatively using [3 H] thymidine autoradiography on 2-μm plastic …