Our approach should readily generalize to other model systems with comparable brain sizes (e.g. other molluscs, crustacea, annelids, insects). On its own, it won’t yield a full wiring diagram, but it does rapidly provide a detailed overview map for atlas building and comparative studies. 9/10

We then used the excellent volume image-sharing, annotation, and reconstruction platform
@webknossos.org to fully reconstruct the buccal ganglia (one side is shown here) housing the main feeding circuitry, yielding the first accurate estimate of the total number of neurons: ~1100. 4/10

Our approach should readily generalize to other model systems with comparable brain sizes (e.g. other molluscs, crustacea, annelids, insects). On its own, it won’t yield a full wiring diagram, but it does rapidly provide a detailed overview map for atlas building and comparative studies. 9/10

We then used the excellent volume image-sharing, annotation, and reconstruction platform @webknossos.org to fully reconstruct the buccal ganglia (one side is shown here) housing the main feeding circuitry, yielding the first accurate estimate of the total number of neurons: ~1100. 4/10

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