Mapping chromatic pathways in the Drosophila visual system

TY Lin, J Luo, K Shinomiya, CY Ting… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… their downstream medulla projection (Tm) neurons Tm5a, … , we identify anatomically the
visual projection neurons LT11 … that true color vision is mediated by multiple redundant pathways…

Mechanisms of vision in the fruit fly

L de Andres-Bragado, SG Sprecher - Current opinion in insect science, 2019 - Elsevier
… key topics of Drosophila vision: color vision, motion vision and … to the medulla (Me) and are
mostly involved in color vision. … This contrasts with the great redundancy found in the color-…

[HTML][HTML] Toward a mechanistic understanding of color vision in insects

BM Song, CH Lee - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… We focus on Drosophila studies that identified neuronal … studies identified neural pathways
that mediate color vision. By … suggests multi-stage color processing in the medulla with color

[HTML][HTML] Central brain circuitry for color-vision-modulated behaviors

KD Longden - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
… One conventional definition is that color vision is the ability to discriminate two uniform lights
… lobe area, the medulla. Recent work in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has established …

[HTML][HTML] Visual projection neurons in the Drosophila lobula link feature detection to distinct behavioral programs

M Wu, A Nern, WR Williamson, MM Morimoto… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Neurons projecting out of the optic lobes originate in the medulla, lobula and lobula plate
with the majority from the latter two, deeper neuropil layers. The response properties of …

[HTML][HTML] Color vision in insects: insights from Drosophila

C Schnaitmann, M Pagni, DF Reiff - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2020 - Springer
… and many vertebrates including humans, color vision is … An accessory pigment mediates
additional UV sensitivity in R1–R6. f … The importance of the medulla and lobula for color vision in …

[HTML][HTML] Circuit mechanisms underlying chromatic encoding in Drosophila photoreceptors

SL Heath, MP Christenson, E Oriol… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
… find a horizontal-cell-mediated pathway similar to that found in … Color vision is an important
source of visual information, … , and their color opponent axonal responses in the medulla can …

[HTML][HTML] Interaction of “chromatic” and “achromatic” circuits in Drosophila color opponent processing

M Pagni, V Haikala, V Oberhauser, PB Meyer, DF Reiff… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Color vision is an important sensory capability of humans … Here, we report that the second
order medulla interneuron Dm8 is … In summary, Dm8 mediates a second step in UV/VIS color

[HTML][HTML] The development and function of neuronal subtypes processing color and skylight polarization in the optic lobes of Drosophila melanogaster

G Sancer, MF Wernet - Arthropod Structure & Development, 2021 - Elsevier
medulla circuitry processing skylight polarization versus color. A graphical summary of the
early circuit elements processing skylight polarization versus color vision. … is mediated by UV-…

[HTML][HTML] Color processing in the early visual system of Drosophila

C Schnaitmann, V Haikala, E Abraham, V Oberhauser… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Color vision requires possession of at least two photoreceptor types with different spectral …
(B) R7 and R8 axons project from the retina (Re) to the medulla (Me), where they terminate in …