Topic: optogenetic tagging

Breathing is a vital sensorimotor behavior maintained throughout life that must be concurrently robust and flexible. Despite the relative simplicity of this behavior, the neural circuits that drive and maintain breathing are distributed throughout a large population of anatomically distributed and molecularly diverse neural population that compose the rostro-caudally extended Ventral Respiratory Column (VRC) The rhythmic properties of individual VRC nuclei are well known, yet technical challenges have limited the interrogation of the entire VRC population simultaneously. Here we introduce an e