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Drosophila Larval Light-Avoidance is Negatively Regulated by Temperature Through Two Pairs of Central Brain Neurons

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Acknowledgements

We thank Jiangqu Liu for constructive discussions and Yufeng Pan and Fang Guo for sharing fly strains. We acknowledge the Bloomington Drosophila stock center and Qinghua Drosophila Stock center for providing the fly stocks and the core facilities of Zhejiang University School of Medicine for technical support and reagents. This work was supported by Zhejiang Lab (2020KB0AC02), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31070944, 31271147, 31471063, 31671074, and 61572433) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (2017FZA7003).

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  1. NHC and CAMS Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Science and Brain-machine Integration, School of Brain Science and Brain Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China

    Jie Wang, Qianhui Zhao, Jinrun Zhou, Xinhang Li, Yinhui He & Zhefeng Gong

  2. Department of Neurology of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China

    Jie Wang, Weiqiao Zhao, Qianhui Zhao, Jinrun Zhou, Xinhang Li, Yinhui He & Zhefeng Gong

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Wang, J., Zhao, W., Zhao, Q. et al. Drosophila Larval Light-Avoidance is Negatively Regulated by Temperature Through Two Pairs of Central Brain Neurons. Neurosci. Bull. 38, 200–204 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-021-00785-7

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