# Drosophila melanogaster **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **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. <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - In [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], **FlyWire: Whole-Brain Completeness at Insect Scale** provides the narrative context for **Drosophila melanogaster**: The FlyWire Consortium, co-led by Mala Murthy (Director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Karol and Marnie Marcin '96 Professor of Neuroscience) and Sebastian Seung (Evnin Professor in Neuroscience and Professor of… <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 -->