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

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

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 …

Compared with connections between the retinae and primary visual centers, relatively less
is known in both mammals and insects about the functional segregation of neural pathways …

The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been used for decades as a genetic model for
unraveling mechanisms of development and behavior. In order to efficiently assign gene …

A compact genome and a tiny brain make Drosophila the prime model to understand the
neural substrate of behavior. The neurogenetic efforts to reveal neural circuits underlying …

Understanding how activity patterns in specific neural circuits coordinate an animal's
behavior remains a key area of neuroscience research. Genetic tools and a brain of …

Understanding how the brain controls behaviour is undisputedly one of the grand goals of
neuroscience research, and the pursuit of this goal has a long tradition in insect …

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 …

Vision is essential to maximize the efficiency of daily tasks such as feeding, avoiding
predators or finding mating partners. An advantageous model is Drosophila melanogaster …