Contact Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Phone +49 6221 54-5523 Communications and Marketing Press Office Phone +49 6221 54-2311   Further Information   Service Pictorial Material Photos are available from the press office. Press releases by feed |   |  >  > How a Developmental Gene Controls Feeding Behaviour Press Release No. 6/2016 15 January 2016 Heidelberg biologists gain new insights into a Hox gene using the fruit fly model organism Photo: COS Image of a head motor unit enabling feeding behavior in flies. Function of the Hox Protein Deformed is essential for the development and maintenance of this motor unit that comprises a muscle (red) and its innervating neurons (green), as well as interconnecting synapses (blue). In experiments on the fruit fly model
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