Highlights•Technical advances are producing bigger and denser Drosophila melanogaster
connectomes.•Mapping connectomics to other data types is a challenging but crucial …

The neural circuits responsible for animal behavior remain largely unknown. We summarize
new methods and present the circuitry of a large fraction of the brain of the fruit fly …

Flexible behaviors over long timescales are thought to engage recurrent neural networks in
deep brain regions, which are experimentally challenging to study. In insects, recurrent …

Making inferences about the computations performed by neuronal circuits from synapse-
level connectivity maps is an emerging opportunity in neuroscience. The mushroom body …

The diversity and dense interconnectivity of cells in the nervous system present a huge
challenge to understanding how brains work. Recent progress toward such understanding …

A deep understanding of how the brain controls behaviour requires mapping neural circuits
down to the muscles that they control. Here, we apply automated tools to segment neurons …

The neural circuits responsible for behavior remain largely unknown. Previous efforts have
reconstructed the complete circuits of small animals, with hundreds of neurons, and selected …

The hemibrain connectome provides large-scale connectivity and morphology information
for the majority of the central brain of Drosophila melanogaster. Using this data set, we …

Cell-type-specific tools facilitate the identification and functional characterization of the
distinct cell types that form the complexity of neuronal circuits. A large collection of existing …

Mating and egg laying are tightly cooordinated events in the reproductive life of all oviparous
females. Oviposition is typically rare in virgin females but is initiated after copulation. Here …