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Fly Brains Are Wildly Complex


A connectome and analysis of the adult Drosophila central brain | eLife

Biologically, we examine distributions of connection strengths, neural motifs on different scales, electrical consequences of ...

How memories are encoded in the brain of the fruit fly

Importantly, the synaptic boutons in the brains of living flies were fluorescently imaged while the flies were subjected to training called ...

Ring neurons in the Drosophila central complex act as a rheostat for ...

R2/R4 neuron activity is increased when flies are exposed to dead. If R2 and R4 neuronal activation is required for death perception to modulate ...

The insect central complex - Cell Press

to the more widely separated, paired ... Locomotor deficiencies are also seen in fruit flies that lack subsets of central complex neurons.

Come Fly with Me: an overview of dopamine receptors in Drosophila ...

Many regions in the fly brain innervated by dopaminergic neurons have been mapped and linked to specific behaviours, including associative learning and arousal.

Focusing on Fruit Flies, Curiosity Takes Flight - The New York Times

For Michael Dickinson, a MacArthur prizewinning scientist, the humble fruit fly is a dream machine, and its brain a treasure trove of ...

Dispatch Arousal Mechanisms: Speedy Flies Don't Sleep at Night

Brain activity between 20 and 30Hz was found to increase in response to salient visual stimuli and to be independent from the fly's own movements. This neural ...

After a Decade, Scientists Unveil Fly Brain in Stunning Detail

Murthy and her colleagues hope to use the fly map to discover fundamental rules for complex brains, such as how the wiring of neurons allows ...

Researchers' reconstruction of fruit fly's anterior visual pathway will ...

UC Santa Barbara neuroscientists have reconstructed the entire anterior visual pathway of a fruit fly, a complex series of neural connections between the ...

A revolutionary map of the fly brain could change how we study our ...

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking new resource—the FlyWire Connectome, described today in the journal Nature—that maps every ...

How aggression-promoting brain peptide works in fruit flies

This is likely a way to control complex behavior—like how the fly decides who to fight and with how much aggression—and can help us better ...

Drosophila melanogaster - Wikipedia

Drosophila melanogaster is a species of fly in the family Drosophilidae. The species is often referred to as the fruit fly or lesser fruit fly, ...

Fruit flies use two muscles to control pitch for stable flight

The flight of insects may look effortless but, as with any animal, their movements would be wildly uneven without an intricate system of ...

A Drosophila model of closed head traumatic brain injury - PNAS

The main features of human TBI also occur in flies, suggesting that the underlying mechanisms are conserved. Our studies demonstrate the value of a fly model ...

AI met fruit fly, and a better brain model emerged | NCPR News

Scientists have been able to catch glimpses of the process in the brains of living fruit flies but they have no way to capture the activity of ...

Scientists map fruit fly larva brain for first time : r/singularity - Reddit

They mapped a fruit fly larva brain, it has 3016 neurons which is 10x more than than the previous best of ~300 neurons in a nematode.

Origins: Unwinding DNA: Fruit Fly - Exploratorium

For instance, "leonardo" and "dunce" describe two gene variations that affect a fly's ability to learn new odor tasks. The genes involved in learning in flies ...

Drosophila behavioral paradigms - Society for Developmental Biology

Targeted neurons were widely distributed throughout male and female nervous systems, but the enhanced aggression was seen only in females. No effects were seen ...

Taste and pheromone perception in the fruit fly Drosophila ...

“The fly” is unique in the animal kingdom with regard to available experimental tools, which include a wide repertoire of molecular-genetic ...

Brain & Resources - direct | …changing lives

The beauty of the human brain is that while it is a wildly complex organism ... and is responsible for the fight, flight or freeze response. Infants ...