The fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster has enabled significant ... that are required to maintain the structural integrity of the brain, defined by recessive mutations that cause adult onset ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute-led research has produced a complete connectome of the Drosophila visual system, enabling systematic investigations into how visual information is processed and relayed ...

2003 ). For example, when expressed in the Drosophila brain, Tau protein—which forms neurofibrillary tangle pathology in AD—causes adult onset, progressive neurodegeneration, truncated lifespan and ...

The work will be of interest to Drosophila neurobiologists and particularly to those working on male social behaviors. Drosophila is one of the most well-studied model organisms for identifying ...

Our lab has also focused these past few years on various brain-neuronal aspects of Drosophila rhythms. There are seven anatomically distinct neuronal groups, comprising in total about 75 cells on each ...

The functioning of the brain relies on the precise organization of neuronal connections. In an article published in Developmental Cell, scientists show how neurons establish their connections in ...

The study investigates an emerging research field: the interaction between sleep and development. The authors use Drosophila larvae sleep as a study model and provide valuable insight into how ...

The brain is the part of the central nervous system ... A complete inventory of the Drosophila visual system classifies about 53,000 neurons into 732 types. The shapes and connections of all ...

The work will be of interest to Drosophila neurobiologists and particularly to those working on male social behaviors. Drosophila is one of the most well-studied model organisms for identifying ...