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Marta Costa

@mmcosta.bsky.social

Neuroscientist, Drosophila connectomics in Cambridge, UK

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We explore #dimorphism across sensory modalities (visual and auditory systems, gustation and olfaction) and find, for example, a putative functional β€œlove spot” involving male-specific neurons. 8/10

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We cross-matched neurons and identified over 7k isomorphic, 114 sexually dimorphic, 262 male- and 69 female-specific cell types. In total, these neurons make up 4.8% and 2.4% of the male and female brain, respectively. 6/10

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This is the first completely proofread connectome of a nervous system (brain + nerve cord) for an adult animal with complex behaviour: 167k neurons with rich annotations (classes, cell types, developmental lineages, …) to help explore the dataset and 125M synaptic connections between them. 3/10

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