Alexander Thomson

The paper presents the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system and compares it to the female connectome, identifying sex-specific and dimorphic neuronal types.

A FIB-SEM connectome of the male Drosophila right optic lobe sorts ∼53,000 neurons into 727 types, with neurotransmitter predictions and 577 matched split-GAL4 lines.

The paper reconstructs and identifies 58 Lobula Plate Tangential Neurons in Drosophila using EM and predicts their optic flow sensitivity through computational anatomy.

The paper shows that the preferred directions of Drosophila DS neurons are shaped by the compound eye's structure, linking peripheral anatomy to neural function and behavior.

The paper maps synaptic targets of color and polarization-sensitive photoreceptors in Drosophila, revealing modality-specific wiring and spatial segregation in neural circuits.