Highlights•We describe recent advances in the field of visual processing in Drosophila.•We
present in detail the neuronal circuits underlying four visual modalities.•Motion vision …

Originally a genetic model organism, the experimental use of Drosophila melanogaster has
grown to include quantitative behavioral analyses, sophisticated perturbations of neuronal …

Neural implementations of visual behaviors in Drosophila have been dissected intensively
in the past couple of decades. The availability of premiere genetic toolkits, behavioral …

The sensory tasks performed by the eye are diverse and complex. In Drosophila, the eye
performs motion detection for navigation as well as detection of the quality of light (color and …

Understanding how sensory stimuli drive behavior requires a detailed understanding of the
molecular and neural nature through which the stimuli are received and processed. The …

Background Color vision requires comparison between photoreceptors that are sensitive to
different wavelengths of light. In Drosophila, this is achieved by the inner photoreceptors (R7 …

Drosophila vision is mediated by inputs from three types of photoreceptor neurons; R1–R6
mediate achromatic motion detection, while R7 and R8 constitute two chromatic channels …

The task of the visual system is to translate light into neuronal encoded information. This
translation of photons into neuronal signals is achieved by photoreceptor neurons (PRs) …

Visual systems transduce, process and transmit light-dependent environmental cues.
Computation of visual features depends on photoreceptor neuron types (PR) present …

Visual transduction in the Drosophila compound eye functions through a pathway that
couples rhodopsin to phospholipase C (PLC) and the opening of transient receptor potential …