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

Vision is critical for the control of locomotion, but the underlying neural mechanisms by
which visuomotor circuits contribute to the movement of the body through space are yet not …

Movement-correlated brain activity has been found across species and brain regions. Here,
we used fast whole brain lightfield imaging in adult Drosophila to investigate the relationship …

In most animals, a relatively small number of descending neurons (DNs) connect higher
brain centers in the animal's head to circuits and motor neurons (MNs) in the nerve cord of …

To survive, animals must convert sensory information into appropriate behaviours,. Vision is
a common sense for locating ethologically relevant stimuli and guiding motor responses …

Deciphering how the brain regulates motor circuits to control complex behaviors is an
important, long-standing challenge in neuroscience. In the fly, Drosophila melanogaster, this …

The clumped distribution of resources in the world has influenced the pattern of foraging
behavior since the origins of locomotion, selecting for a common search motif in which …

Using odors to find food and mates is one of the most ancient and highly conserved
behaviors. Arthropods from flies to moths to crabs use broadly similar strategies to navigate …

Visual systems extract multiple features from a scene using parallel neural circuits.
Ultimately, the separate neural signals must come together to coherently influence action …

Abstract Background Neuroscience research in Drosophila is benefiting from large-scale
connectomics efforts using electron microscopy (EM) to reveal all the neurons in a brain and …