When walking flies are shown bright, high-contrast rotating visual stimuli, they begin to turn in the direction opposite the rotation, showing that optomotor turning behavior contains rich, stimulus-dependent dynamics.

A map showing how neurons that process motion are wired together in the visual system of fruit flies provides new insights into how animals navigate and remain stable when flying.

New reconstruction methods are used to create a publicly available dense reconstruction of the neurons and chemical synapses of central brain of Drosophila, with analysis of its graph properties.

A common mechanism for computation of direction selectivity in the ON and OFF channel is demonstrated.

Uniting two principles that have been thought of being mutually exclusive in the past can explain how neurons become sensitive to the direction of motion.

New protein labeling strategies unravel the subcellular distribution of neurotransmitter receptor subunits and voltage-gated ion channels in motion-sensing T4/T5 neurons of the Drosophila visual system.

A complete connectome of the ON and OFF motion pathways of the Drosophila optic lobe is acquired using three-dimensional EM methods, and the similarities and differences of the two pathways are uncovered.

The fly connectome reveals dedicated cell types for processing specific kinds of visual information such as color or skylight polarization.

Neurons called lobula columnar cells help fruit flies respond appropriately to specific visual cues, such as those signaling an approaching predator.