To most humans, a fruit fly larva doesn\u2019t look like much: a pale, wriggling, rice grain-shaped maggot, just a few millimeters in length. Yet, in their own way, fly larvae lead rich and interesting lives full of sensory inputs, social behaviors, and learning. If you\u2019ve ever doubted that a lot goes on inside a maggot\u2019s head, now we have the map to prove to it.<\/p>\n

An interdisciplinary team of scientists have released a complete reconstruction and analysis of a larval fruit fly\u2019s brain, published Thursday in the journal Science. The resulting map, or connectome, as its called in neuroscience, includes each one of the 3,016 neurons and 548,000 of the synapses running between neurons that make up the baby fly\u2019s entire central nervous system. The connectome includes both of the larva\u2019s brain lobes, as well as the nerve cord.<\/p>\n

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To most humans, a fruit fly larva doesn\u2019t look like much: a pale, wriggling, rice grain-shaped maggot, just a few millimeters in length. Yet, in their own way, fly larvae lead rich and interesting lives full of sensory inputs, social behaviors, and learning. If you\u2019ve ever doubted that a lot goes on inside a maggot\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}