Media & Explainers

Wikipedia: Drosophila connectome

Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation)

Community-written encyclopedia article that serves as a one-stop overview of fruit fly connectomics, explaining why Drosophila is used as a model and walking through the major datasets from the 3,016-neuron larval brain to the adult hemibrain, FlyWire, the FANC and MANC nerve cords, and the 2025 whole-CNS BANC and male CNS reconstructions. It also touches on how wiring structure relates to behavior. Text is under CC BY-SA 4.0; last edited August 11, 2026.

Official site ↗

Wikipedia: Drosophila connectome

#encyclopedia#overview#wiki#reference

Sources checked

Every fact above was read from these pages on the date the entry was added.