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Topological Shape Changes Weaken the Innate Defensive Response to Visual Threat in Mice

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The work was supported by the Shenzhen Science and Technology Research Funding Program, China (JCYJ20170818161400180 and JCYJ20180508152336419), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81425010, 31630031, and 31971072), and the Key Laboratory of Brain Connectome of Guangdong Province, China (2017B030301017).

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  1. Yan Huang and Lei Li have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. The Brain Cognition and Brain Disease Institute (BCBDI), Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institute of Brain Science-Shenzhen Fundamental Research Institutions, Guangdong Key Lab of Brain Connectomics, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Yan Huang, Lei Li, Kun Dong, Hongsi Tang, Qingning Yang, Xianglian Jia, Yundan Liao, Zhen Ren & Liping Wang

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Yan Huang, Lei Li, Kun Dong, Hongsi Tang, Qingning Yang, Xianglian Jia, Yundan Liao, Zhen Ren & Liping Wang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, CAS, University of the CAS, Beijing, 100101, China

    Wenbo Wang & Lin Chen

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Huang, Y., Li, L., Dong, K. et al. Topological Shape Changes Weaken the Innate Defensive Response to Visual Threat in Mice. Neurosci. Bull. 36, 427–431 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-019-00454-w

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