Conditional Chemoconnectomics: A Highly Efficient Toolkit for Targeted Manipulation of Chemical Transmission Genes in Drosophila
The authors have developed highly efficient conditional gene manipulation systems, including GFP-RNAi/Flp-out and CRISPR/Cas9-based approaches, to target all chemical transmission (chemoconnectome, CCT) genes in Drosophila. These tools enable detailed dissection of neural circuits underlying specific behaviors.