Short Report: Park and Griffith 1 Electrophysiological and Anatomical Characterization of PDF-positive Clock Neurons in the Intact Adult Drosophila Brain
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Acknowledgments We would like to acknowledge Joel Levine and Ying Peng for important discussions, behavioral analysis and reagents, James Hodge for help with initial imaging studies and James Choi for help with figures. UAS-dORK transgenic lines were a generous gift of Michael Nitabach and Todd Holmes. DP was supported by NIH postdoctoral training grant P32 NS07292 and R01 MH067284 (to L.C.G.). We also thank Ed Dougherty for help with imaging. The Brandeis Biology confocal facility was supported by NIH grants P30 NS045713 and S10 RR16780.
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