Gap junctions articles within Nature

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• Letter | 13 January 2016

  Motor neurons control locomotor circuit function retrogradely via gap junctions

  WebMotor neurons in zebrafish are shown to be more than simply output neurons, since they are able to influence, through gap junctions, the strength of the input they receive from V2a interneurons and, thereby, the frequency and duration of locomotor activity.

  • Jianren Song
  • , Konstantinos Ampatzis
  •  & Abdeljabbar El Manira

• Letter | 02 May 2012

  Clonally related visual cortical neurons show similar stimulus feature selectivity

  It has been proposed that, during development, clonally related neurons migrate along the same radial glial fibre to form clusters of functionally similar cells; here, sister neurons in the same radial clone are shown to have similar orientation preferences in mice, providing support for this hypothesis.

  • Ye Li
  • , Hui Lu
  •  & Yang Dan

• Letter | 02 May 2012

  Preferential electrical coupling regulates neocortical lineage-dependent microcircuit assembly

  In the neocortex, microcircuits are assembled in a lineage-dependent manner through a distinct sequence of events that involves long-range electrical connections between sister neurons, leading to the formation of chemical synapses between these neurons.

  • Yong-Chun Yu
  • , Shuijin He
  •  & Song-Hai Shi