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We thank all Wang Lab members for helpful discussions and technical assistance. We thank Pierre Leopold, Zhefeng Gong, Paul Taghert, Yi Rao, the Bloomington Drosophila stock center at Indiana University, and the Tsinghua Fly Center for fly stocks and reagents. We thank Zhaobing Gao and Yanfen Li (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica) for their help with electrophysiological experiments. We thank Dr. Xiaoming Li and the Molecular Imaging Core Facility of School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University for microscopic imaging. We thank members of the Neuroscience Pioneer Club for insightful discussions throughout the course of this study, and Yan Li, Xiaoke Chen, Liqun Luo and Dengke Ma for helpful comments on the manuscript. Danping Chen and Ye Wu provided scientific and administrative support in the laboratory. This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31522026 to L.W. and 31771169 to W.S.), the Thousand Young Talents Plan (LW. and W.S.), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2016QN81010 and 2015XZZX004-33 to L.W.).
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Acknowledgments We acknowledge support from the Louis-Jeantet Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Canton of Basel.
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