image: This image is a comparison of fruit fly, mouse and human brains. This new study reveals that similar brain structures regulate comparable behaviors in a similar manner, despite the fact that the brain of species like flies, mice and humans are rather different in size and appearance. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the April 12, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Nicholas Strausfeld at University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz., and colleagues was titled, "Deep Homology of Arthropod Central Complex and Vertebrate Basal Ganglia." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of Dr. Frank Hirth, King's College London]