How Color Vision Is Processed: Fly Brain Circuitry Mapped

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Sun, 03/30/2008 - 19:00

Biologists have mapped the medulla circuitry in fruit flies, setting the stage for subsequent research on how color vision is processed.

The work will enable researchers to explore how color vision is processed in the optic lobe of the fruit fly Drosophila, providing a paradigm for more complex systems in vertebrates.


 

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