Albert CardonaSep 2, 2023

James W. Truman featured in the New Yorker. A warm, lovely piece on his career studying insect metamorphosis, from moths to flies and mosquitoes, and the role and impact of hormones on insect development and behaviour—motivated by his latest work mapping the fate of neurons from larva to adult through pupal stages, and addressing an old question: do associative memories persist through metamorphosis?

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/what-insects-go-through-is-even-weirder-than-we-thought

The paper:
“Metamorphosis of memory circuits in Drosophila reveals a strategy for evolving a larval brain” Truman et al. 2023 https://elifesciences.org/articles/80594

#neuroscience #entomology #metamorphosis #insects #ecdyzone #Drosophila #moths #mosquitoes #NewYorker

What Insects Go Through Is Even Weirder Than We Thought

Rivka Galchen on the entomologist James Truman’s research studying the process of metamorphosis in insects.

The New Yorker
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@albertcardona there is another, more detailed article here : https://www.quantamagazine.org/insect-brains-melt-and-rewire-during-metamorphosis-20230726/
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Why Insect Memories May Not Survive Metamorphosis

The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults.

Quanta Magazine
Sep 2, 2023 at 7:36amWeb