What resolves this contention: Apparent discrepancy in reported scale of 'whole…

What resolves this contention: Apparent discrepancy in reported scale of 'whole adult female Drosophila' connectome (139,255 neurons in FAFB/FlyWire vs >20,000 in hemibrain reconstruction). Resolves by scope: hemibrain covers central brain of one hemisphere only, while FAFB covers both hemispheres of the entire female brain — the two papers are not measuring the same volume. / With 139,255 neurons, the newly completed full adult female brain (FAFB) connectome is intermediate in log scale between the first connectome of Caenorhabditis elegans (302 neurons3,4) and the mouse (108 neurons), a desirable but currently intractable target5. / To address this problem, we applied novel community detection methods to analyze the synapse-level reconstruction of an adult female <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> brain containing >20,000 neurons and 10 million synapses.