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Jefferis group publishes largest connectome of a male Drosophila brain to date

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Greg Jefferis’s group, as part of an international collaboration including the FlyEM Project Team at HHMI-Janelia, has published the first complete connectome of an entire male Drosophila central nervous system. The connectome, which is not yet peer-reviewed, includes the central brain, optic lobes and the ventral nerve cord. More…