Application for theDrosophilaVentral Nerve Cord Standard in Neuronal Circuit Reconstruction and In-Depth Analysis of Mutant Morphology
Application for theDrosophilaVentral Nerve Cord Standard in Neuronal Circuit Reconstruction and In-Depth Analysis of Mutant Morphology
The Drosophila standard brain has been a useful tool that provides information about position and size of different brain structures within a wild-type brain and allows the comparison of imaging data that were collected from individual preparations. Therefore the standard can be used to reveal and visualize differences of brain regions between wild-type and mutant brains and can provide spatial description of single neurons within the nervous system. Recently the standard brain was complemented by the generation of a ventral nerve cord (VNC) standard. Here the authors have registered the major components of a simple neuronal circuit, the Giant Fiber System (GFS), into this standard. The authors show that they can also virtually reconstruct the well-characterized synaptic contact of the Giant Fiber with its motorneuronal target when they register the individual neurons from different preparations into the VNC standard. In addition to the potential application for the standard thorax in neuronal circuit reconstruction, the authors show that it is a useful tool for in-depth analysis of mutant morphology of single neurons. The authors find quantitative and qualitative differences when they compared the Giant Fibers of two different neuroglian alleles, nrg(849) and nrg(G00305), using the averaged wild-type GFS in the standard VNC as a reference.
- Florida Atlantic University United States
Motor Neurons, Neurons, Microscopy, Confocal, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Nervous System Malformations, Drosophila melanogaster, Mutation, Neural Pathways, Animals, Female, Cell Shape
Motor Neurons, Neurons, Microscopy, Confocal, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Nervous System Malformations, Drosophila melanogaster, Mutation, Neural Pathways, Animals, Female, Cell Shape
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