LLPC [FBbt_00003881]

LLPC

ID: FBbt_00003881

Lobula complex columnar neuron with its soma in the cell body rind of the lobula plate (Shinomiya et al., 2022). It has a dendritic branch with more proximal arbors in the lobula plate more distal arbors in the lobula (Fischbach and Dittrich, 1989; Strausfeld and Gilbert, 1992; Shinomiya et al., 2019; Shinomiya et al., 2022). It has an axonal branch that projects along a path posterior to the lobula plate to the central brain (Fischbach and Dittrich, 1989; Strausfeld and Gilbert, 1992; Shinomiya et al., 2019; Shinomiya et al., 2022).

These neurons were first described in Drosophila by Fischbach and Dittrich (1989), who named them lobula complex columnar neurons type 2 (Lccn2). Similar neurons were later found in other diptera (Strausfeld and Gilbert, 1992) and named lobula-lobula plate neurons (LLP); that later terminology is now predominant in the literature.