Journal: eLife
Article Title: A single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the adult Drosophila ventral nerve cord
doi: 10.7554/eLife.54074
Figure Lengend Snippet: ( A ) Visualization of acj6 expressing cells in the 5 day old adult VNC. Maximal coronal projection, and hemi-maximal sagittal projectionof acj6 GAL4 driving expression of UAS-WM , enabling the visualization of cell nuclei (nRFP; green) and neuronal morphology (mGFP; magenta). Neuropil is counterstained (Brp; blue). A, Anterior, P, posterior, D, dorsal; scale bars = 50 μm. ( B ) t-SNE plot of acj6 expression in the VNC. Predicted hemilineage 8B, 9B, and 23B, based on known markers (shown below) are highlighted. ( C ) t-SNE plots of predicted hemilineage 23B, showing expression of markers acj6 , unc-4 , and VAChT . ( D ) t-SNE plots of predicted hemilineage 23B, showing expression of novel sub-type markers kn and twz . ( B–D ) Expression shown in black, intensity is proportional to the log-normalized expression levels. ( E ) Maximal coronal view (left) and hemi-maximal sagittal view (right) of Acj6 expression (green) in the 5 day old adult VNC. The posterior prothoracic hemilineages 23B (dashed white box) and the anterior mesothoracic 8B and 9B (dashed yellow box) are marked. A, Anterior, P, posterior, D, dorsal; Neuropil is counterstained (Cad-N; blue) scale bars = 50 μm. ( F ) Close-up maximal coronal views of dorsolateral hemilineage 23B showing the co-expression of kn GAL4 and twz GAL4 driven UAS-Stinger expression (nGFP; magenta) with Acj6 (green). Co-positive cells (white) are indicated with arrow heads. Lim3 GAL4 driven expression did not colocalize with Acj6 in hemilineage 23B. GOI = gene of interest, scale bars = 10 μm. Figure 5—source data 1. Cell counts of novel sub-lineage marker co-expression in the VNC. Cell counts of Acj6-positive and Acj6/GOI co-positive cells in prothoracic hemilineage 23B and mesothoracic hemilineages 8B and 9B. Values are for a single side of a single individual (along with means, standard deviations, and standard errors).
Article Snippet: Primary antibodies used were: mouse mAb nC82 (1:50), mouse anti-AbdA (1:100, C-11), mouse anti-AbdB (1:10, 1A2E9-s), mouse anti-Acj6-s (1:20), mouse anti-AntP (1:20, 8C11-s), mouse anti-Ubx (1:20, FP3.38-s), rat anti-CadN (1:30, DN-Ex #8;) from DSHB, Univ. of Iowa.
Techniques: Expressing, Marker