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  • Automated synapse-level rec...
    Svara, Fabian; Förster, Dominique; Kubo, Fumi; Januszewski, Michał; Dal Maschio, Marco; Schubert, Philipp J; Kornfeld, Jörgen; Wanner, Adrian A; Laurell, Eva; Denk, Winfried; Baier, Herwig

    Nature methods, 11/2022, Letnik: 19, Številka: 11
    Journal Article

    Dense reconstruction of synaptic connectivity requires high-resolution electron microscopy images of entire brains and tools to efficiently trace neuronal wires across the volume. To generate such a resource, we sectioned and imaged a larval zebrafish brain by serial block-face electron microscopy at a voxel size of 14 × 14 × 25 nm . We segmented the resulting dataset with the flood-filling network algorithm, automated the detection of chemical synapses and validated the results by comparisons to transmission electron microscopic images and light-microscopic reconstructions. Neurons and their connections are stored in the form of a queryable and expandable digital address book. We reconstructed a network of 208 neurons involved in visual motion processing, most of them located in the pretectum, which had been functionally characterized in the same specimen by two-photon calcium imaging. Moreover, we mapped all 407 presynaptic and postsynaptic partners of two superficial interneurons in the tectum. The resource developed here serves as a foundation for synaptic-resolution circuit analyses in the zebrafish nervous system.