Nobuaki K. Tanaka

TL;DR: The laminar arrangement of the Kenyon cell axons and segmented organization of the MBENs together divide the lobes into smaller synaptic units, possibly facilitating characteristic interaction between intrinsic and extrinsic neurons in each unit for different functional activities along the longitudinal lobe axes and between lobes.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a chlorophyll a oxygenase is involved inchlorophyll b formation and that an overlapping region of a nuclear genome was deleted in all mutants and that this encodes a protein whose sequence is similar to those of methyl monooxygenases.

TL;DR: It is suggested that activity-dependent functional plasticity may be a general feature of the Drosophila olfactory system.

TL;DR: Using the GAL4 enhancer‐trap system, a systematic mapping of the neurons associated with the primary olfactory center of Drosophila, the antennal lobe (AL), revealed how glomeruli are linked with each other, how different PNs link these glomerulus with multiple secondary sites, and how these secondary sites are organized by the projections of the AL‐associated neurons.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the requirements for the different mushroom body neurons, specifically the alpha/beta versus the gamma neurons, and whether olfactory learning is supported by different subsets of mushroom bodies irrespective of the odors used as conditioned stimuli.