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A toolkit for seeing how the fly brain’s visual system works

A complete inventory of the Drosophila visual system classifies about 53,000 neurons into 732 types. The shapes and connections of all the visual neurons have been quantified, and a large collection of genetically engineered fly lines have been shared, providing a comprehensive toolkit for studying fly vision.

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This is a summary of: Nern, A. et al. Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08746-0 (2025).

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00885-8

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