ArticleNature neuroscience2024
Activity of nested neural circuits drives different courtship songs in Drosophila.
Article in Nature neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Article
- Uncovering Sex Differences in thebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Visual recognition of the anteroposterior female body axis drives spatial elements of male courtship in Drosophila.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Article
- Neural evolution of complex motor behaviors: insights from Drosophila courtship song.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2025Review
- Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of thebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- A neural circuit for context-dependent multimodal signaling in Drosophila.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Neural control of coordinated wing and leg movements during a terrestrial threat display.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- High-resolution comparative single-cell transcriptomics ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Courtship song differs between African and European populations of Drosophila melanogaster and involves a strong effect locus.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Article
- Single-cell type analysis of wing premotor circuits in the ventral nerve cord ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Astrocyte antennae.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Activity of nested neural circuits drives different courtship songs in Drosophila.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Motor systems implement diverse motor programs to pattern behavioral sequences, yet how different motor actions are controlled on a moment-by-moment basis remains unclear. Here, we investigated the neural circuit mechanisms underlying the control of distinct courtship songs in Drosophila. Courting males rapidly alternate between two types of song: pulse and sine. By recording calcium signals in the ventral nerve cord in singing flies, we found that one neural population is active during both songs, whereas an expanded neural population, which includes neurons from the first population, is active during pulse song. Brain recordings showed that this nested activation pattern is present in two descending pathways required for singing. Connectomic analysis reveals that these two descending pathways provide structured input to ventral nerve cord neurons in a manner consistent with their activation patterns. These results suggest that nested premotor circuit activity, directed by distinct descending signals, enables rapid switching between motor actions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.