eLife (Jan 2025)

A split-GAL4 driver line resource for Drosophila neuron types

  • Geoffrey W Meissner,
  • Allison Vannan,
  • Jennifer Jeter,
  • Kari Close,
  • Gina M DePasquale,
  • Zachary Dorman,
  • Kaitlyn Forster,
  • Jaye Anne Beringer,
  • Theresa Gibney,
  • Joanna H Hausenfluck,
  • Yisheng He,
  • Kristin Henderson,
  • Lauren Johnson,
  • Rebecca M Johnston,
  • Gudrun Ihrke,
  • Nirmala A Iyer,
  • Rachel Lazarus,
  • Kelley Lee,
  • Hsing-Hsi Li,
  • Hua-Peng Liaw,
  • Brian Melton,
  • Scott Miller,
  • Reeham Motaher,
  • Alexandra Novak,
  • Omotara Ogundeyi,
  • Alyson Petruncio,
  • Jacquelyn Price,
  • Sophia Protopapas,
  • Susana Tae,
  • Jennifer Taylor,
  • Rebecca Vorimo,
  • Brianna Yarbrough,
  • Kevin Xiankun Zeng,
  • Christopher T Zugates,
  • Heather Dionne,
  • Claire Angstadt,
  • Kelly Ashley,
  • Amanda Cavallaro,
  • Tam Dang,
  • Guillermo A Gonzalez III,
  • Karen L Hibbard,
  • Cuizhen Huang,
  • Jui-Chun Kao,
  • Todd Laverty,
  • Monti Mercer,
  • Brenda Perez,
  • Scarlett Rose Pitts,
  • Danielle Ruiz,
  • Viruthika Vallanadu,
  • Grace Zhiyu Zheng,
  • Cristian Goina,
  • Hideo Otsuna,
  • Konrad Rokicki,
  • Robert R Svirskas,
  • Han SJ Cheong,
  • Michael-John Dolan,
  • Erica Ehrhardt,
  • Kai Feng,
  • Basel EI Galfi,
  • Jens Goldammer,
  • Stephen J Huston,
  • Nan Hu,
  • Masayoshi Ito,
  • Claire McKellar,
  • Ryo Minegishi,
  • Shigehiro Namiki,
  • Aljoscha Nern,
  • Catherine E Schretter,
  • Gabriella R Sterne,
  • Lalanti Venkatasubramanian,
  • Kaiyu Wang,
  • Tanya Wolff,
  • Ming Wu,
  • Reed George,
  • Oz Malkesman,
  • Yoshinori Aso,
  • Gwyneth M Card,
  • Barry J Dickson,
  • Wyatt Korff,
  • Kei Ito,
  • James W Truman,
  • Marta Zlatic,
  • Gerald M Rubin,
  • FlyLight Project Team

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.98405
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13

Abstract

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Techniques that enable precise manipulations of subsets of neurons in the fly central nervous system (CNS) have greatly facilitated our understanding of the neural basis of behavior. Split-GAL4 driver lines allow specific targeting of cell types in Drosophila melanogaster and other species. We describe here a collection of 3060 lines targeting a range of cell types in the adult Drosophila CNS and 1373 lines characterized in third-instar larvae. These tools enable functional, transcriptomic, and proteomic studies based on precise anatomical targeting. NeuronBridge and other search tools relate light microscopy images of these split-GAL4 lines to connectomes reconstructed from electron microscopy images. The collections are the result of screening over 77,000 split hemidriver combinations. Previously published and new lines are included, all validated for driver expression and curated for optimal cell-type specificity across diverse cell types. In addition to images and fly stocks for these well-characterized lines, we make available 300,000 new 3D images of other split-GAL4 lines.

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