Visual processing in the fly, from photoreceptors to behavior

TA Currier, MM Pang, TR Clandinin - Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Originally a genetic model organism, the experimental use of Drosophila melanogaster has
grown to include quantitative behavioral analyses, sophisticated perturbations of neuronal …

Neuronal parts list and wiring diagram for a visual system

A Matsliah, S Yu, K Kruk, D Bland, AT Burke, J Gager… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
A catalogue of neuronal cell types has often been called a 'parts list'of the brain, and
regarded as a prerequisite for understanding brain function,. In the optic lobe of Drosophila …

From Photons to Behaviors: Neural Implementations of Visual Behaviors in Drosophila

L Ryu, SY Kim, AJ Kim - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Neural implementations of visual behaviors in Drosophila have been dissected intensively
in the past couple of decades. The availability of premiere genetic toolkits, behavioral …

Different spectral sensitivities of ON- and OFF-motion pathways enhance the detection of approaching color objects in Drosophila

KD Longden, EM Rogers, A Nern, H Dionne… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Color and motion are used by many species to identify salient objects. They are processed
largely independently, but color contributes to motion processing in humans, for example …

Connectome of the lamina reveals the circuit for early color processing in the visual pathway of a butterfly

A Matsushita, F Stewart, M Ilić, PJ Chen, D Wakita… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Connectomics has become a standard neuroscience methodology in a few model animals,
1 with the visual system being a popular target of study. 2–5 Combining connectomics with …

Multifaceted luminance gain control beyond photoreceptors in Drosophila

MD Ketkar, S Shao, J Gjorgjieva, M Silies - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Animals navigating in natural environments must handle vast changes in their sensory input.
Visual systems, for example, handle changes in luminance at many timescales, from slow …

Neural pathways and computations that achieve stable contrast processing tuned to natural scenes

B Gür, L Ramirez, J Cornean, F Thurn… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Natural scenes are highly dynamic, challenging the reliability of visual processing. Yet,
humans and many animals perform accurate visual behaviors, whereas computer vision …

[HTML][HTML] Interaction of “chromatic” and “achromatic” circuits in Drosophila color opponent processing

M Pagni, V Haikala, V Oberhauser, PB Meyer, DF Reiff… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Color vision is an important sensory capability of humans and many animals. It relies on
color opponent processing in visual circuits that gradually compare the signals of …

First-order visual interneurons distribute distinct contrast and luminance information across ON and OFF pathways to achieve stable behavior

MD Ketkar, B Gür, S Molina-Obando, M Ioannidou… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The accurate processing of contrast is the basis for all visually guided behaviors. Visual
scenes with rapidly changing illumination challenge contrast computation because …

Long-timescale anti-directional rotation in Drosophila optomotor behavior

O Mano, M Choi, R Tanaka, MS Creamer, NCB Matos… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Locomotor movements cause visual images to be displaced across the eye, a retinal slip
that is counteracted by stabilizing reflexes in many animals. In insects, optomotor turning …