Neuronal circuits integrating visual motion information in Drosophila melanogaster

K Shinomiya, A Nern, IA Meinertzhagen, SM Plaza… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
… Together with functional studies, these data have revealed the detailed circuitry and likely
mechanism(s) of motion detection by T4 and T5 neurons. T4 are the ON directionally selective …

Anatomy and Neural Pathways Modulating Distinct Locomotor Behaviors in Drosophila Larva

SBM Gowda, S Salim, F Mohammad - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
… Thus, the functional analysis of PMSIs in the segments of VNC show that the motor activity
pattern of PMSIs were similar to rhythmic motor patterns of larval peristaltic movements. …

How flies see motion

A Borst, LN Groschner - Annual review of neuroscience, 2023 - annualreviews.org
… How neurons detect the direction of motion is a prime example of neural computation: Motion
… The genetic methods available in the fruit fly Drosophila and the charting of a connectome …

Non-canonical receptive field properties and neuromodulation of feature-detecting neurons in flies

C Städele, MF Keleş, JM Mongeau, MA Frye - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
… spatial pattern, motion detectors in both taxa … fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to characterize
divergent properties of feature selection. We identified LC12 and LC15 as feature detectors

Behavioral signatures of structured feature detection during courtship in Drosophila

J Ning, Z Li, X Zhang, J Wang, D Chen, Q Liu, Y Sun - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
… courtship, flies detect complex spatiotemporally structured features of conspecifics, laying
the foundation for a mechanistic understanding of conspecific recognition in Drosophila. …

Visual and motor signatures of locomotion dynamically shape a population code for feature detection in Drosophila

MH Turner, A Krieger, MM Pang, TR Clandinin - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
… From a visual circuit perspective, coherent rotational motion concentrates activity of
elementary motion detecting neurons T4/T5 within a single layer of the lobula plate, where as …

Anatomical distribution and functional roles of electrical synapses in Drosophila

G Ammer, RM Vieira, S Fendl, A Borst - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
nervous system (CNS) in adult Drosophila. Next, to assess the importance of electrical synapses
in neuronal function… shakB, the most widely expressed neuronal gap junction protein, in …

The Drosophila Split Gal4 System for Neural Circuit Mapping

H Luan, F Diao, RL Scott, BH White - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2020 - frontiersin.org
functionally characterizeneuronal types in a particular brain region, this has helped reveal
the design principles governing operations of the fly nervous system from motion detection

A functionally ordered visual feature map in the Drosophila brain

NC Klapoetke, A Nern, EM Rogers, GM Rubin… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
… a local feature detector. To test this hypothesis, we systematically characterized responses
to a … All classic models of directionally selective motion detection, including the Hassenstein-…

Functional analysis of glycosylation using Drosophila melanogaster

S Nishihara - Glycoconjugate Journal, 2020 - Springer
… clarified by using Drosophila melanogaster, … Drosophila [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]. In this review,
the focus will be on recent progress in the functional analysis of glycans using Drosophila. …