Maybe a thread for items of interest tangentially related to Flywire/drosophilia?
Eyewire Mystics should appreciate this study, which has some comparisons between drosophila and zebrafish!
Jean-Stéphane Joly, Gaelle Recher, […], and Volker Hartenstein
A teaser image for you:
This is great! I haven’t seen this study before. It’s interesting how such vastly different creatures can have such similarity in vision.
According to this study:
There are about 200k cells in the Drosphila’s brain and out of it, 100k are in the optic lobes.
Fruit fly's complete brain wiring map offers insights into human brain : Shots - Health News : NPR is this flywire or another lab/project?
Hi,
Welcome back!
AFAIK, it’s a different project and it’s for a fly’s larva. It has “only” over 3000 neurons, while our drosophila has probably about 200k neurons. Quite a difference, I’d say. Yet, the larval project is still very interesting.
Hey! Right lol, i didnt look that much into it (neuron # diff. lol). Still interesting seeing similar projects from diff. labs.
yeah @Krzysztof_Kruk is right, that larval connectome is a few thousand neurons vs the whole fly brain being much larger. Also since it’s a larva (no legs or wings, just a tiny worm basically) it doesn’t exhibit most of the more complex behaviour that is studied in adults. Still, it’s impressive and important work. We’ll likely import the larval connectome into codex. Can let you guys know when it’s up if you’re interested in exploring.
Fun fact: adult Drosophila has more neurons than a larval zebrafish and more than a lobster.
Also more than a sponge, but that’s not hard to achieve 
However, an elephant has almost 3 times more neurons, than a human. It’s almost the same difference as betweeen humans and gorillas (are we gorillas in the elephant world? 
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those are some really cool stats! More than a lobster?!
Yeah, I was very surprised. But, lobsters are bugs of the sea, after all
Interesting summary of some of the recent studies and discoveries in human brain:
Just had this show up in my feed (a whole 1.5 months late ;~;)
clicks link
sees Astrocytes 
clicks link with glee
seeing the blood vessels in there brings back memories from seeing them in EW, lol.
