Synaptic targets of photoreceptors specialized to detect color and skylight polarization in Drosophila

E Kind, KD Longden, A Nern, A Zhao, G Sancer… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
… We identify circuit motifs shared between DRA and central columns, and describe modality-
… tangential cells, including those intrinsic to the medulla which we refer to as medulla

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
circuitry, by focusing on two cell types located in the distal portion of the medulla neuropil
of the fruit fly Drosophila … elements processing skylight polarization versus color vision. …

Coordination of neural patterning in the Drosophila visual system

M Courgeon, C Desplan - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2019 - Elsevier
… patterning and circuit assembly, the Drosophila visual system, … R8) are responsible for color
vision and express Rhodopsins … medulla neurons, as in the absence of the eye most medulla

Spectral response properties of higher visual neurons in Drosophila melanogaster

T Yonekura, J Yamauchi, T Morimoto, Y Seki - Journal of Comparative …, 2020 - Springer
… chromatic information for true color vision and spectral preference. … In bees, the chromatic
properties of medulla, lobula, and … the neural circuits for color vision remains to be determined. …

[PDF][PDF] Neuronal circuits integrating visual motion information in Drosophila melanogaster

K Shinomiya, A Nern, IA Meinertzhagen, SM Plaza… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
… , the synaptic connectivity of circuits integrating T4/T5 motion … interneurons, detailing the
circuit basis for computing motion … The circuits we describe enrich the anatomical basis for …

[PDF][PDF] Connectome of the lamina reveals the circuit for early color processing in the visual pathway of a butterfly

A Matsushita, F Stewart, M Ilić, PJ Chen, D Wakita… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
circuit and behavioral physiology, recent studies on the color vision of the fruit fly Drosophila
… melanogaster color vision have revealed the circuits in the distal medulla.The search for …

Direct neural pathways convey distinct visual information to Drosophila mushroom bodies

K Vogt, Y Aso, T Hige, S Knapek, T Ichinose… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
… VPN-MB2 is the first Drosophila interneuron shown to … light intensity may be encoded in the
medulla layer M7 (Figure 3H)… thus explain the circuit mechanism by which the Drosophila MB …

Untangling the wiring of the Drosophila visual system: developmental principles and molecular strategies

H Plazaola-Sasieta, A Fernández-Pineda… - Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Drosophila species as a model of neural circuit assembly. While the functionality of circuits
… information to the medulla according to their arborizations in specific medulla layers. Color …

A visual pathway for skylight polarization processing in Drosophila

BJ Hardcastle, JJ Omoto, P Kandimalla, BCM Nguyen… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
… from the eye to the central complex in Drosophila. We used neurogenetic tracing techniques
and in vivo … We show that parallel circuitry in the medulla conducts polarization signals from …

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

SL Heath, MP Christenson, E Oriol… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Color vision is an important source of visual … in Drosophila project from the retina into the
optic lobe. Our imaging experiments target the axon terminals of R7 and R8 in the medulla at …