Remember doing projects with drosophila (fruit flies) in high-school biology? These scientists are going a little beyond sorting the different phenotypes! In @thetransmitter’s story, Laura Dattaro writes about how researchers are mapping the neurons in the drosophila’s ventral nerve cord. Creating these “connectomes” could help them understand how to map the systems of more complicated organisms.

https://www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/new-connectomes-fly-beyond-the-brain/

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