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How Do Fruit Flies See in Color? Columbia Study Uncovers Human-like Brain Circuit at Work

How Do Fruit Flies See in Color? Columbia Study Uncovers Human-like Brain Circuit at Work

January 9, 2020
neuroscience   zuckerman institute  

Columbia scientists have identified a brain circuit that drives fruit flies’ ability to see in color — and found that it bears a striking resemblance to the circuitry behind our own capacity for color vision.

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