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A Map of How Flies Sense Their Environment Provides Evolutionary Insights (4 of 5)

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A Map of How Flies Sense Their Environment Provides Evolutionary Insights (4 of 5)

video: Layered terminals of the axons projecting from different types of somatosensory neurons in the legs to the ventral nerve cord of the fruit fly Drosophila. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 3, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Tsubouchi at University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues was titled, "Topological and modality-specific representation of somatosensory information in the fly brain." view more 

Credit: Kei Ito, Univ. Tokyo and Univ. Cologne


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