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It's a touching story of cohabitation and meaningful communication. Two neighbouring fruitfly neurons talk to each other not by means of synaptic junctions but by interactions through the surrounding electrical field. See Article p.66

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Figure 1: Close neuronal couples.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 21 November 2012.

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  1. Kazumichi Shimizu and Mark Stopfer are at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.,

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Shimizu, K., Stopfer, M. Intimate neuronal whispers. Nature 492, 44–45 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11757

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