The pattern of neuroblast formation, mitotic domains and proneural gene expression during early brain development in Drosophila. Development 130 , 3589–3606 (2003). Article CAS Google Scholar ...

A new way of generating brain cells has been uncovered in Drosophila. This novel mode of neurogenesis is very similar to that seen in mammalian brains, suggesting that key aspects of neural ...

Ten Drosophila genes, orthologous to candidate human AD susceptibility genes, were validated in our functional screen. For example, loss-of-function in cindr, the fly ortholog of human CD2AP, enhances ...

This common fly, called drosophila melanogaster (or ‘lesser fruit fly’) has been the subject of a lot of genetic studies, but this study of its brain structure may provide insights in how our ...

A tiny brain for immense discoveries. The fruit fly, this simple vinegar fly, holds within it the secrets of neural connections. Could understanding its brain pave the way for insights into human ...

“The fruit fly brain contains ‘only’ around 220,000 cells, a scale for which it has now become feasible to investigate the full diversity of all cell types,” added Aerts. DNA code of ...

To really understand the human brain, scientists say you'd have to map its wiring. The only problem: there are more than 100 trillion different connections to find, trace and characterize. But a ...

Researchers have known for a long time that innate and learned behaviors occur in separate brain areas. Each one is stimulated by a sensation, like a smell or a picture, but the way innate and ...

For Drosophila, an international research consortium has recently published a map of all connections between all neurons in the fly brain—the so-called connectome.

Together, the team has now used this brain connectome to find all the neurons that make up the circadian clock of a fly. The result: "The circadian clock in the Drosophila brain consists of at ...