Google And Janelia Chart 166,000 Neurons Inside A Male Fly's Brain
The connectome sorts 11,691 neuron types into three classes and sits beside an earlier female map guiding three new behavior studies.
- 166,000 neurons in one male fly's brain and ventral nerve cord, fully reconstructed in 3D.
- Researchers Michał Januszewski and Viren Jain built the atlas from millions of 2D microscope images.
- The new map compares its wiring against an earlier female fly connectome from the same groups.
Why it matters: Charting every wire is not the same as explaining a single thought or a single act of behavior.