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Cook et al. 2020

The connectome of the Caenorhabditis elegans pharynx

Steven J. Cook, Charles M. Crouse, Eviatar Yemini, David H. Hall, Scott W. Emmons, Oliver Hobert
J Comp Neurol. 2020; 528: 2767–2784
Published: 30 April 2020

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Summary

  • An updated connectome using Elegance software for annotation of synapses.
  • An extension of the previous reported pharyngeal connectome (Albertson & Thomson 1976) by describing the connectivity with anatomical weights.
  • They verified 94% (50/53) of the chemical synaptic connections between cell classes previously reported in the pharynx (Albertson & Thomson 1976).