Researchers publish the first complete fruit fly central nervous system connectome, proving motor control is distributed in ...

A team of experimental neurobiologists and theoretical biologists has managed to solve a mystery that has been baffling scientists for decades. They have been able to determine the nature of the ...

Ionic dynamics in insect nervous systems underpin all facets of neural signalling, from sensory transduction to motor output. Central to this process are the regulated movements of sodium, potassium, ...

Work is underway on a wiring diagram of the motor circuits in the central nervous system that control muscles in fruit flies. This connectome, as the wiring diagram is called, is already providing ...

For the first time, researchers at Leipzig University and other institutions have gained comprehensive insights into the entire nervous system of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). The findings ...