Arnim Jenett

TL;DR: The utility of 7,000 transgenic lines of Drosophila melanogaster for identifying novel neuronal cell types, revealing brain asymmetry, and describing the nature and extent of neuronal shape stereotypy is illustrated.

TL;DR: The increased strength and reliability of these optimized reagents overcome many of the previous limitations of these methods and will facilitate genetic manipulations of greater complexity and sophistication in Drosophila melanogaster.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the D. melanogaster genome contains >50,000 enhancers and that multiple enhancers drive distinct subsets of expression of a gene in each tissue and developmental stage.

TL;DR: Analyzing Drosophila melanogaster neural expression patterns in thousands of three-dimensional image stacks of individual brains requires registering them into a canonical framework based on a fiducial reference of neuropil morphology, which permits assessment of stereotypy, potential connectivity and functional mapping of the adult fruit fly brain.

TL;DR: The Virtual Insect Brain protocol is developed for the standardization of Drosophila neuroanatomy and provides volumetry of brain regions and helps to characterize the phenotypes of brain structure mutants.