Anatomy and Physiology of the Digestive Tract of Drosophila melanogaster

I Miguel-Aliaga, H Jasper, B Lemaitre - Genetics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The gastrointestinal tract has recently come to the forefront of multiple research fields. It is
now recognized as a major source of signals modulating food intake, insulin secretion and …

Imaging whole-brain activity to understand behaviour

A Lin, D Witvliet, L Hernandez-Nunez… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Until now, most brain studies have focused on small numbers of neurons that interact in
limited circuits, allowing analysis of individual computations or steps of neural processing …

The connectome of an insect brain

M Winding, BD Pedigo, CL Barnes, HG Patsolic, Y Park… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Brains contain networks of interconnected neurons and so knowing the network architecture
is essential for understanding brain function. We therefore mapped the synaptic-resolution …

A connectome and analysis of the adult Drosophila central brain

LK Scheffer, CS Xu, M Januszewski, Z Lu, S Takemura… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The neural circuits responsible for animal behavior remain largely unknown. We summarize
new methods and present the circuitry of a large fraction of the brain of the fruit fly …

[HTML][HTML] A connectome of the Drosophila central complex reveals network motifs suitable for flexible navigation and context-dependent action selection

BK Hulse, H Haberkern, R Franconville… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Flexible behaviors over long timescales are thought to engage recurrent neural networks in
deep brain regions, which are experimentally challenging to study. In insects, recurrent …

[HTML][HTML] Non-canonical odor coding in the mosquito

M Herre, OV Goldman, TC Lu, G Caballero-Vidal, Y Qi… - Cell, 2022 - Elsevier
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are a persistent human foe, transmitting arboviruses including
dengue when they feed on human blood. Mosquitoes are intensely attracted to body odor …

[PDF][PDF] A complete electron microscopy volume of the brain of adult Drosophila melanogaster

Z Zheng, JS Lauritzen, E Perlman, CG Robinson… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Drosophila melanogaster has a rich repertoire of innate and learned behaviors. Its 100,000-
neuron brain is a large but tractable target for comprehensive neural circuit mapping. Only …

The neuronal architecture of the mushroom body provides a logic for associative learning

Y Aso, D Hattori, Y Yu, RM Johnston, NA Iyer, TTB Ngo… - elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
We identified the neurons comprising the Drosophila mushroom body (MB), an associative
center in invertebrate brains, and provide a comprehensive map describing their potential …

A Connectome of the Adult Drosophila Central Brain

CS Xu, M Januszewski, Z Lu, S Takemura… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The neural circuits responsible for behavior remain largely unknown. Previous efforts have
reconstructed the complete circuits of small animals, with hundreds of neurons, and selected …

[HTML][HTML] Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain

S Dorkenwald, A Matsliah, AR Sterling, P Schlegel… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Connections between neurons can be mapped by acquiring and analyzing electron
microscopic (EM) brain images. In recent years, this approach has been applied to chunks of …