Evolutionarily conserved brainstem architecture enables gravity-guided vertical navigation

• Yunlu Zhu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Otolaryngology, Neuroscience & Physiology, and the Neuroscience Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Hannah Gelnaw,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Departments of Otolaryngology, Neuroscience & Physiology, and the Neuroscience Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Franziska Auer,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Departments of Otolaryngology, Neuroscience & Physiology, and the Neuroscience Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Kyla R. Hamling,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation Departments of Otolaryngology, Neuroscience & Physiology, and the Neuroscience Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• David E. Ehrlich,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Departments of Otolaryngology, Neuroscience & Physiology, and the Neuroscience Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• David Schoppik

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: schoppik@gmail.com

  Affiliation Departments of Otolaryngology, Neuroscience & Physiology, and the Neuroscience Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7969-9632

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