# Drosophila melanogaster **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Common name:** Fruit fly **Type:** Model organism **Primary sources:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]]; [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] ## Relationships - The [[wiki/FlyWire Consortium|FlyWire Consortium]] reconstructed the adult female brain of this species. - The source reports 139,255 neurons, 54.5 million synapses, and 8,453 cell types in that map. - Drosophila visual and motor circuits support connectome-constrained modeling and [[wiki/Neural Network Alignment|cross-individual or sex-specific alignment]]. The species is the biological source of the map; it is not interchangeable with FlyWire, the consortium, or the dataset interface.