A visual motion detection circuit suggested by Drosophila connectomics

Nature

Volumn 500, Issue 7461, 2013, Pages 175-181

  Takemura, Shin Ya ^a   Bharioke, Arjun ^a   Lu, Zhiyuan ^a,b   Nern, Aljoscha ^a   Vitaladevuni, Shiv ^a   Rivlin, Patricia K ^a   Katz, William T ^a   Olbris, Donald J ^a   Plaza, Stephen M ^a   Winston, Philip ^a   Zhao, Ting ^a   Horne, Jane Anne ^b   Fetter, Richard D ^a   Takemura, Satoko ^a   Blazek, Katerina ^a   Chang, Lei Ann ^a   Ogundeyi, Omotara ^a   Saunders, Mathew A ^a   Shapiro, Victor ^a   Sigmund, Christopher ^a   Rubin, Gerald M ^a   Scheffer, Louis K ^a   Meinertzhagen, Ian A ^a,b   Chklovskii, Dmitri B ^a   more..

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FLY; IMAGING METHOD; MOVEMENT; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CUE;

ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; COLOR VISION; CONNECTOME; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CONNECTOME; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84881412920     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12450     Document Type: Article

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