Like other sensory systems, the visual system is topographically organized: Its sensory
neurons, the photoreceptors, and their targets maintain point-to-point correspondence in …

Highlights•The Drosophila visual system is an emerging model for neural circuit
formation.•The visual system is composed of repetitive units that are repeated across …

How stem cells produce the huge diversity of neurons that form the visual system, and how
these cells are assembled in neural circuits are a critical question in developmental …

The ability of vertebrates and insects to perceive and process information about the visual
world is mediated by neural circuits, which share a strikingly conserved architecture of …

In the developing nervous system, building a functional neuronal network relies on
coordinating the formation, specification and survival to diverse neuronal and glial cell …

The precise recognition of appropriate synaptic partner neurons is a critical step during
neural circuit assembly. However, little is known about the developmental context in which …

The assembly of neural circuits relies on the accurate establishment of connections between
synaptic partners. Precise wiring results from responses that neurons elicit to environmental …

Both insect and vertebrate visual circuits are organized into orderly arrays of columnar and
layered synaptic units that correspond to the array of photoreceptors in the eye. Recent …

Specifying synaptic partners and regulating synaptic numbers are at least partly activity-
dependent processes during visual map formation in all systems investigated to date [1–5] …

The development of the adult visual system of Drosophila requires the establishment of
precise retinotopic connections between retinal photoreceptor cell axons and their synaptic …