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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 30/04/2025

How does a fly’s nervous system differ by sex? 🧠🪰 Led by Tomke Stürner & Paul Brooks, Greg Jefferis’ group, the Drosophila Connectomics group (University of Cambridge) & global colleagues publish a new atlas, revealing sex-specific neurons driving distinct behaviours. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Map showing descending and ascending neurons across Drosophila sexes, using three electron microscopy datasets. Neurons are coloured by type.

A complete connectomic map of ascending and descending neurons in three electron microscopy datasets, reveals female (white) and male (red) specific neurons.

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 30/04/2025

This builds on previous work from the Jefferis group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, who last year contributed to the complete connectome of the adult Drosophila fly – the most complex brain mapped to date. Read more here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/whole-brain-...

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Whole brain connectome of fruit fly is most complex brain ever mapped - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

An international collaboration, including Greg Jefferis’ group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, have published the connectome of the Drosophila fly – the most complex brain to be mapped in its enti...

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