Scientists Unveil the First-Ever Complete Map of an Adult Fruit Fly’s Brain, Captured in Stunning Detail
Scientists Unveil the First-Ever Complete Map of an Adult Fruit Fly’s Brain, Captured in Stunning Detail
The brain diagram, called a connectome, could revolutionize researchers' understanding of the human brain, which has many parallels with a fruit fly's
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the sweet trigger caused the simulation to send signals that would extend the proboscis, and the bitter one didn’t. Further study showed that the computer model was more than 90 percent accurate in predicting how a real fly’s brain would respond.
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Wait, are we just going to casually skip past the part where a fruit fly SINGS???
Almost all insects do, it's a mating thing
How do we know this? Are there fruit fly song recordings?
We're working on getting a microphone that small, so they aren't intimidated and will allow themselves to be recorded.
I want the spotify remix.
Because fruit flies are literally one of the most studied animals in the world, and yes
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=fruit+fly+song&btnG=