Motion vision provides essential cues for navigation and course control as well as for mate,
prey, or predator detection. Consequently, neurons responding to visual motion in a …

The fruit fly Drosophila larva demonstrates a sophisticated repertoire of behavior under the
control of a numerically simple neural system. Historically, the stereotyped responses of …

Several fundamental aspects of motion vision circuitry are prevalent across flies and mice.
Both taxa segregate ON and OFF signals. For any given spatial pattern, motion detectors in …

The visual system is a powerful model for probing the development, connectivity, and
function of neural circuits. Two genetically tractable species, mice and flies, are together …

A stepwise morphogenetic program of ceil division and cell fate determination generates the
precise neuronal architecture of the visual centers of the Drosophila brain. Here, we show …

Drosophila melanogaster has historically been the premier model system for understanding
the molecular and genetic bases of complex behaviors. In the last decade technical …

How stem cells produce the huge diversity of neurons that form the visual system, and how
these cells are assembled in neural circuits are a critical question in developmental …

Insects exhibit an elaborate repertoire of behaviors in response to environmental stimuli.
The central complex plays a key role in combining various modalities of sensory information …

Complicated neuronal circuits can be genetically encoded, but the underlying
developmental algorithms remain largely unknown. Here, we describe a developmental …

In most animals, the brain makes behavioral decisions that are transmitted by descending
neurons to the nerve cord circuitry that produces behaviors. In insects, only a few …