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 …

[PDF][PDF] 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
… Here, we report that the second order medulla interneuron Dm8 is … Color vision allows the
discrimination of visual stimuli based … At the level of neuronal circuit computations, 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

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …