Color vision in insects: insights from Drosophila

C Schnaitmann, M Pagni, DF Reiff - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2020 - Springer
… , and circuit implementation of color vision in insects is still limited. Help might come from
Drosophila … The medulla is the first optic neuropil that receives signals from photoreceptors with …

Visual circuits in arthropod brains

U Homberg - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2020 - Springer
color vision in Drosophila and other insects (Schnaitmann et al. 2020). The authors review
the role of color vision in … pathways in the lamina and medulla. They point out promising …

Mechanisms of vision in the fruit fly

L de Andres-Bragado, SG Sprecher - Current opinion in insect science, 2019 - Elsevier
circuitry underlying such important behaviors as color vision (… (a) Diagram of the two parallel
pathways in Drosophila vision … to the medulla (Me) and are mostly involved in color vision. …

[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 and many animals. It relies on
color opponent processing in visual circuits … Here, we report that the second order medulla

Circuit mechanisms underlying chromatic encoding in Drosophila photoreceptors

SL Heath, MP Christenson, E Oriol… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Drosophila melanogaster has emerged as a genetically tractable system to study circuit level
mechanisms of color vision … in the medulla at the level of layers M6 and M3, respectively. …

Interactions between Dpr11 and DIP-γ control selection of amacrine neurons in Drosophila color vision circuits

KP Menon, V Kulkarni, S Takemura, M Anaya, K Zinn - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
… pair in the development of color vision circuits in the OL. The Drosophila compound eye is
… The change in R7 fate is thus transmitted to the downstream circuit in the medulla via Dpr11-…

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. …

Hue selectivity from recurrent circuitry in Drosophila

MP Christenson, A Sanz Diez, SL Heath… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
… reveal a circuit basis for hue selectivity in color vision. … , where synaptic circuits of
seven columns in the medulla were … Overall, our results are consistent with the seven-medulla

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
color vision? How does such a system evolve? Addressing these questions requires comparative
studies at the circuit … to the second optic ganglion, the medulla. Other PRs, R3–R9, are …

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 …