title: Neuroanatomy: decoding the fly brain.
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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK.
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kohl
authors.forename: Gregory S X E
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Jefferis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009445:Neuroanatomy; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*