Full reconstruction of large lobula plate tangential cells in Drosophila from a 3D EM dataset.

ABSTRACT: With the advent of neurogenetic methods, the neural basis of behavior is presently being analyzed in more and more detail. This is particularly true for visually driven behavior of Drosophila melanogaster where cell-specific driver lines exist that, depending on the combination with appropriate effector genes, allow for targeted recording, silencing and optogenetic stimulation of individual cell-types. Together with detailed connectomic data of large parts of the fly optic lobe, this has recently led to much progress in our understanding of the neural circuits underlying local motion detection. However, how such local information is combined by optic flow sensitive large-field neurons is still incompletely understood. Here, we aim to fill this gap by a dense reconstruction of lobula plate

SUBMITTER: Boergens KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6261601 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature