Drosophila Connectomics: Mapping the Larval Eye's Mind

Carl Friedrich-Reed Wienecke; Thomas R Clandinin

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.016

Drosophila Connectomics: Mapping the Larval Eye's Mind

Curr Biol. 2017 Nov 6;27(21):R1161-R1163. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.016.

Authors

Carl Friedrich-Reed Wienecke¹, Thomas R Clandinin²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurobiology, Fairchild D200, 299 W. Campus Drive, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94103, USA.
² Department of Neurobiology, Fairchild D200, 299 W. Campus Drive, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94103, USA. Electronic address: trc@stanford.edu.

PMID: 29112868
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.016

Abstract

A new study has mapped the connectome - the shapes and connections of all the neurons- of the visual system of a Drosophila larva, providing a structural basis for understanding the neural circuitry of larval vision.

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