Digital Honeybee AL Atlas: morphology and physiology

The direct link to the morphological atlas (this page) is: https://neuro.uni-konstanz.de/honeybeeALatlas
To see the physiological atlas, go to: https://neuro.uni-konstanz.de/24bee_physiol/default.html

We created a digital atlas from a series of confocal sections of the honeybee antennal lobe. This atlas is convenient for the localization and identification of glomeruli. It is based on the nomenclature introduced by Flanagan&Mercer, 1989.

Details are published in:
C. Giovanni Galizia, Sabrina L. McIlwrath, and Randolf Menzel (1999). A digital three-dimensional atlas of the honeybee antennal lobe glomeruli based on optical sections acquired using confocal microscopy. Cell and Tissue Research, 295:383-394.

Format

The atlas is a volumetric representation of the AL, in a sense a virtual antennal lobe. It consists of a series of sections. In each section, the position of a particular glomerulus is identified by its color code (or grey-level value). Using any 3D-capable software, it is possible to reslice and/or rotate the virtual antennal lobe.

An alternative is given for users who have no access to 3D tools. In the LableAtl each glomerulus is identified by a label typed into the glomerulus. This version is easily accessible, but not suitable for reslicing or projections.

See examples

Examples of the atlas on the net can be seen as QuickTime movies.

Projection
examples		 Labeled
glomeruli		 Color-coded
glomeruli		 Confocal data

Download the Atlas

You need to downloade the atlas from this site, and use it with your own software. You can download the data in different formats: either with each section as one file (TIFF, JPEG or GIF format; these are presented as 87 single files in directories, or as ZIP files containing the 87 single files), or all sections in one stack (3D-TIFF format).

There are also examples for rotations and for sections in different planes.

Go to the download page

Alternative links

The atlas can also be accessed via Flybrain, with the accession number AC00162. Flybrain is accessible via three mirror sites: Tucson site, USA, Freiburg site, Germany, and Okazaki site, Japan.