Gap junctions desynchronize a neural circuit to stabilize insect flight

Nature - In the Drosophila central-pattern-generating neural network, a mechanism for network desynchronization relying on weak electrical synapses and specific excitability dynamics of the coupled...

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My first preprint: Insect asynchronous flight requires neural circuit de-synchronization by electrical synapses biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Insect asynchronous flight requires neural circuit de-synchronization by electrical synapses

Despite profound mechanistic insight into motor pattern generation, for asynchronous insect flight – the most prevalent form of flight employed by >600.000 species – architecture and function of the...

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