The atlas of the honeybee brain as a tool to relate neural functions to neural structure

我们已经实现了一个蜂脑的虚拟3-D图谱，它被用作一个共同的基础，用于从单独标记的神经元、从填充神经元亚组、从神经元和神经堆的功能成像以及从在定量的种内和种间比较研究的背景下标记神经堆边界来积累结构数据。这项拟议工作的目的是从多个单个神经元的重建中获得解剖网络特性，量化神经元和神经桩水平的结构，开发用于成像数据的图形界面并将这些数据与结构联系起来，以及比较蜜蜂S发育阶段的结构。将与研究小组其他成员合作开发虚拟蜜蜂脑图谱，使之成为国际社会研究昆虫大脑的工具，增加更多的结构，并提供根据共焦显微镜数据建立脑图谱的战略。

We have implemented a virtual 3-D atlas of the bee brain which is used as a common basis for accumulating structural data from individually-marked neurones, from filling subgroups of neurones, from functional imaging of neurones and neuropiles, and from marking neuropile borders in the context of quantitative intra- and interspecies comparative studies. The aim of the proposed work is to derive anatomical network properties from reconstructions of multiple individual neurones, to quantify structure at the neurone and neuropile levels, to develop a graphical interface for imaging data and to relate these to structures, and to compare structures in the course of the honeybee¿s developmental stages. The virtual bee brain atlas will be developed in collaboration with the other members of the Research Group into a tool for the international community working with insect brains by adding additional structures and by providing the strategies to establish brain atlases from confocal microscopy data.