Fruit fly connectome (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Fruit fly connectome

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A team of Princeton researchers led by Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung have mapped all the neurons and connections in the Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) brain. This is the first whole brain connectome.

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Sven Dorkenwald and Amy Sterling, Princeton Neuroscience Institute and EyeWire

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