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. 2011 Jan 11;21(1):R19-20.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.11.067.

Neuroanatomy: decoding the fly brain

Johannes Kohl  1 , Gregory S X E Jefferis
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Neuroanatomy: decoding the fly brain

Johannes Kohl et al. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

Despite their relatively small brains, with only about 100,000 neurons, fruit flies show many complex behaviours. Understanding how these behaviours are generated will require a wiring diagram of the brain, and significant progress is being made towards this goal. One study has labelled 16,000 individual neurons and generated a coarse wiring diagram of the whole fly brain, identifying subnetworks that may carry out local information processing.

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