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. 2009 Mar 6;136(7):1049–1061. doi: 10.1242/dev.014423

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1.

Diverse morphologies of Drosophila dendrites. (A) A Drosophila RP2 motoneuron projects its dendritic arbor within the ventral nerve cord of the embryonic CNS. Adapted with permission from Ou et al. (Ou et al., 2008). Yellow arrows indicate dendrites, yellow arrowheads indicate axons, and cell bodies are indicated by white arrowheads in this and subsequent panels. (B) The dendrites of a highly branched class IV dendritic arborization (da) neuron of a third-instar Drosophila larva. Image reproduced with permission from Matthews et al. (Matthews et al., 2007). (C) Schematic of a Drosophila larva showing the location of da neurons in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and motoneuron cell bodies (red) within the central nervous system (CNS) (not all segments or cells are shown). Anterior is to the left and dorsal is up. (D) A mushroom body neuron (green) elaborates dendrites near the cell body. Image reproduced with permission from Zhu et al. (Zhu, S. et al., 2006). (E) A single projection neuron projects its dendrites to a single glomerulus (outlined in yellow) within the antennal lobe (magenta). Image reproduced with permission from Komiyama and Luo (Komiyama and Luo, 2007). Scale bars: 10 μm in A; 50 μm in B,E; 20 μm in D.