Digital Moth AL Atlas

Reference:
BG Berg, CG Galizia, R Brandt, H Mustaparta (2002)
Digital atlases of the antennal lobe in two species of tobacco budworm moths, the Oriental Helicoverpa assulta (male) and the American Heliothis virescens (male and female). J. Comp. Neurol. 446:123-134.

Heliothis virescens, male Heliothis virescens, female Helicoverpa assulta, male

The moth antennal lobe is made up of about 60-70 glomeruli, which form the functional units of the olfactory code. Each of these glomeruli can be uniquely identified.

We created a digital atlas of the antennal lobe glomeruli of a male Heliothis virescens, a female Heliothis virescens, and a male Helicoverpa assulta. These atlases allow identifying glomeruli in histological sections or wholemounts whenever the borderlines of glomeruli are visible.

For each of the three atlasses (Heliothis virescens, male; Heliothis virescens, female; Helicoverpa assulta, male) this site contains three datasets: one stack of original confocal data, one stack of slices where each glomerulus is labeled with its identity (number), and one stack of slices where the identity is labeled by the pixel value (i.e. the color) within each glomerulus. It is best to download the data onto your computer and visualize it with your own software. In order to allow as widespread a usage as possible, the data is available in a variety of formats (TIFF, BMP, GIF, AVI, MPEG, AmiraMesh). This variety is redundant! It is sufficient to download the version most suitable for your own system.

To download the atlas: cloud.uni-konstanz.de.