Drosophila Neurons Reconstruction (VIDEO)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Using a new dataset of electron microscopy images of the entire adult female fruit fly brain, scientists have traced a collection of neurons. This colorful visualization includes all cells traced to a cell body in the Full Adult Fly Brain dataset as of June 2018.

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EM reconstruction of Drosophila neurons by the Full Adult Fly tracing community. Visualization by Philipp Schlegel (Drosophila Connectomics Group, Cambridge)

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