Positional Variation of Neurons in the Head Region of Adult C. elegans (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Positional Variation of Neurons in the Head Region of Adult C. elegans

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Nerve cells are shaped like young plants: big round seeds (cell bodies) surrounded by a nest of frizzy roots in one direction (dendrites) and a single long stem stretching out in the other direction (axon). This image shows variations in the location of some neuron cell bodies between different animals as ellipses. Each neuron is randomly colored. Neurons are arranged top-to-bottom and left-to-right in the graph as they are located nose-to-tail (anterior-posterior) and back-to-belly (dorsal-ventral) in a worm.

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CC BY-ND 4.0 Toyoshima et al., 2020, DOI: 10.1186/s12915-020-0745-2

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