After the larval brain, then the adult brain, it is now the central nervous system of a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) which has just been fully mapped. This detailed representation of neuronal connections, or "connectome", is no longer limited to the brain: it also includes the ventral nerve chain, the equivalent of the spinal cord in insects.
“ It is crucial to have as complete a connectome of the central nervous system as possible, in order to link the brain to the body and address behavior from a holistic perspective.», he said in a press release Wei-Chung Allen Lee, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School (USA) and co-author of the study published in Cell.
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