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Mushroom Bodies

 
 
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Disease relevance of Mushroom Bodies

  • Feminization of parts of the antennal lobe and mushroom body by targeted expression of a female-determining gene transformer+ (tra+) drives the male to court other males [1].
 

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High impact information on Mushroom Bodies

  • Here we analyse the loss-of-function phenotypes of three Rac GTPases in Drosophila mushroom body neurons [4].
  • The Volado gene is expressed preferentially in mushroom body cells, which are neurons known to mediate olfactory learning in insects [5].
  • Here we show that the alpha-lobes-absent (ala) mutant lacks either the two vertical lobes of the mushroom body or two of the three median lobes which contain branches of vertical lobe neurons [6].
  • Wild-type flies made a discrete choice that switched from one alternative to the other as the relative salience of color and shape cues gradually changed, but this ability was greatly diminished in mutant (mbm1) flies with miniature mushroom bodies or with hydroxyurea ablation of mushroom bodies [7].
  • To investigate the requirement for mushroom body signaling during the different phases of memory processing, we transiently inactivated neurotransmission through this region of the brain by expressing a temperature-sensitive allele of the shibire dynamin guanosine triphosphatase, which is required for synaptic transmission [8].
 

Biological context of Mushroom Bodies

 

Anatomical context of Mushroom Bodies

 

Associations of Mushroom Bodies with chemical compounds

 

Gene context of Mushroom Bodies

  • Analysis of Dscam diversity in regulating axon guidance in Drosophila mushroom bodies [23].
  • Cell-autonomous requirement of the USP/EcR-B ecdysone receptor for mushroom body neuronal remodeling in Drosophila [24].
  • Genetic control of development of the mushroom bodies, the associative learning centers in the Drosophila brain, by the eyeless, twin of eyeless, and Dachshund genes [25].
  • Thus, Eph/Ephrin signaling acts to guide a subset of mushroom body branches to their correct synaptic targets [26].
  • We report here the identification of a gene that we have named enoki mushroom (enok), which when it is mutated gives rise to mushroom bodies with reduced axonal structures. enok encodes a putative histone acetyltransferase (HAT) of the MYST family, members of which have been implicated as important modulators of transcriptional activity [27].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Mushroom Bodies

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