Vision is an active process; animals typically move to gather information about their visual surroundings and ... cell patch recordings from LPTCs in Drosophila melanogaster while they walked ...

Figure 1: The larval Drosophila optic lobe shows extensive ... these new populations would need to be integrated into an ancestral visual circuit consisting of lamina and lobula plate neurons ...

That is why many animals have visual systems that work ... "Here, we uncovered a luminance-sensitive pathway in the Drosophila visual system. Contrast-sensitive neuronal responses alone are ...

How do insects perceive mechanical stress? This is a question of interest in many different fields, including comparative ...

All animals ... fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has a smaller and therefore more easily mappable brain, allowing scientists to gain detailed insights into how its nervous system drives ...

Transposon-based technology for insertional mutagenesis of the genome has been widely used in Drosophila and could be adapted for genomic analysis in mammals. Minos is a mobile element of the Tc 1/ ...

According to Dr. Nisha, the circadian machinery of crickets shows both drosophila and mammal-like traits ... of the brain), which receives the visual information from the retina, houses ...

Although the organs and cells that mediate hearing in vertebrates and Drosophila appear to be very different from a morphological perspective, they share a striking evolutionary conservation of ...