COLOR CODE unc7-1 June 1987

Codes taken from MRC Neuron Charts April 16, 2008; DHH

This young adult (?) has been extensively reconstructed in the anterior ventral cord. The most synaptically-active ventral cord axons were reconstructed using a red and blue color code. Many chemical synapses and some gap junctions are visible on the prints. The latter feature is significant since this gene encodes an innexin believed to be part of certain gap junctions formed between ventral cord interneurons and motoneurons. Unexpectedly, the loss of unc-7(e5) (alone) is not sufficient to disrupt many of those contacts.

This dataset stems from original unpublished work by John White and colleagues at the MRC.

COLOR CODES FOR VENTRAL CORD

1 AVBL

2 AVBR

3 AVAL

4 AVAR

5 an AVD or AVE

6 an AVD or AVE

7 an AVD or AVE

8 an AVD or AVE

1 VA2

2 VB3?

3 AS2

4 DB3

5 VD3

6 DA2

7 VA3

8 VB4

9 VC1

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22 DD1

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31 VA4?

32

33

34 VB1?

35

36

37

38 VB2?

39

40

41

42

43

44 AVM

45 left hand fascicle

46 left hand fascicle

47 left hand fascicle

48 left hand fascicle

49 left hand fascicle

50

51

52 DD2

53 VD4