From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Mon Dec 20 22:00:00 1993
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From: christer.ericsson@mog.ki.se
Subject: # of brain cells?
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I would be interested to know if anybody could provide me with a
literature reference that supports (or not!) the commonly held view that
the adult central nervous system of the fruitfly contains more than
100,000 nerve cells?

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