Regulation of Drosophila oviduct muscle contractility by octopamine

Summary: Octopamine is essential for egg-laying in Drosophila melanogaster, but the neuronal pathways and receptors by which it regulates visceral muscles in the reproductive tract are not known. We find that the two octopamine receptors that have been previously implicated in egg-laying–OAMB and Oc...

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Main Authors: Sonali A. Deshpande, Ethan W. Rohrbach, James D. Asuncion, Jenna Harrigan, Aditya Eamani, Ellery H. Schlingmann, Daniel J. Suto, Pei-Tseng Lee, Felix E. Schweizer, Hugo J. Bellen, David E. Krantz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-08-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222009695