Mushroom Body in a Mantis Shrimp (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Mushroom Body in a Mantis Shrimp

Caption

Part of the lateral forebrain of a mantis shrimp (head shown upper right), a top predator of the coral reef, showing its extended columnar lobe labelled with an antibody raised against DC0, a protein required for learning and memory. The lower right panel shows parallel nerve fibers of the lobe (extending vertically in the photograph) intersected by input and output neurons. In this example, approximately 170,000 neurons contribute to each of its mushroom bodies.

Credit

Mantis shrimp by Roy L. Caldwell/University of California, Berkeley. Brain images by Nicholas Strausfeld, Gabriella Wolff and Marcel Sayre

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