Fruit fly connectome reveals distributed, modular motor control across brain and nerve cord
The first densely reconstructed adult Drosophila connectome spanning brain and ventral nerve cord shows effector neurons are largely governed by local sensory inputs within the same body part, while long-range ascending and descending circuits link parts into behavior-centric modules. Brain regions tied to learning and navigation supervise these circuits, revealing a distributed, parallel, embodied control architecture reminiscent of engineered distributed systems.