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Hall & Russell 1991

The Posterior Nervous System of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans: Serial Reconstruction of Identified Neurons and Complete Pattern of Synaptic Interactions

David H. Hall and Richard L. Russell
Journal of Neuroscience, 11 (1) 1-22
Published: 1 January 1991

Summary

  • Used EM series to reconstruct the posterior nervous system of the adult hermaphrodite C.elegans.
  • 40 neurons in the tail of the adult were identified and a complete list of synapses was assembled for 2 isogenic animals.
  • This list was compared with ta third isogenic animal reconstructed by White et al. 1986.
  • Varshney et al. 2011 later incorporated this published synaptic connectivity data to build their connectome.