Table 1 Summary of anatomical atlases surveyed

WormAtlas

A collection of resources including the SlidableWorm (for viewing annotated electron micrograph sections) and descriptions of individual neurons.

body

adult hermaphrodite, adult male, dauer larva

http://wormatlas.org

From the laboratory of David Hall at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY, USA).

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OpenWorm Browser

(Virtual Worm)

A 3D virtual reconstruction consisting of surface models of 680 cells.

body

adult only

http://browser.openworm.org

A collaboration between WormBase and OpenWorm.

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ANISEED

(“Anatomy” section)

Illustrations of ascidian embryos at selected stages, annotated with cell names.

body

egg through adult

http://www.aniseed.cnrs.fr

Ascidian Network for In Situ and Embryological Data

A collaboration among ascidian researchers led by Patrick Lemaire at the CRM (Montpellier, France).

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FABA

Confocal micrographs for standardizing developmental stages.

body

zygote through hatched larva

http://tunicate-portal.org/faba/1.4/top.html

Four-dimensional Ascidian Body Atlas

From the laboratory of Kohji Hotta at Keio University (Yokohama, Japan).

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Flygut

Description of the Drosophila midgut based on anatomy, histology, and expression patterns of reporter transgenes.

midgut

adult only

http://flygut.epfl.ch

This atlas complements a publication from Bruno Lemaitre’s group at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland).

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Virtual Fly Brain

Virtual sections from a reference brain, with anatomical regions delineated.

brain

adult only

http://www.virtualflybrain.org

Members of the Virtual Fly Brain team are from the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland) and the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England).

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Medaka Blood Vessel Atlas

Annotated illustrations of the vasculature of embryos.

vasculature

mid-embryonic stages

http://www.shigen.nig.ac.jp/medaka/medaka_atlas

Work by Misato Fujita and Sumio Isogai. Hosted online by the National BioResource Project Medaka (Japan).

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Allen Developing Mouse Brain Reference Atlas

Histological sections of brain with anatomical regions delineated.

brain

four embryonic stages, four post-natal stages

http://developingmouse.brain-map.org/static/atlas

Produced by the Allen Institute for Brain Sciences (Seattle, WA, USA).

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e-Mouse Atlas

3D reconstructions of embryos (some with anatomical regions delineated), histological sections, and a guide to embryological stages.

body

all embryonic stages, three post-natal stages

http://www.emouseatlas.org/emap/ema/home.html also known as the Edinburgh Mouse Atlas

Project led by Duncan Davidson and Richard Baldock within the Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit and the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland).

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FishFace

Graphics of fluorescently-labeled chondrocytes, osteoblasts, and bone matrix in the first two pharyngeal arches.

craniofacial skeleton

pharyngula through adult

https://www.facebase.org/fishface/home

Created by the laboratory of Charles Kimmel at the University of Oregon (Eugene, OR, USA) as part of the FaceBase Consortium (USA).

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FishNet

Virtual sections from optical projection tomography (OPT) scans (with selected sections annotated).

body

pharyngula through adult

http://www.fishnet.org.au

Produced by Robert Bryson-Richardson and Peter Currie at Monash University (Clayton, VIC, Australia).

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Interactive Atlas of Zebrafish Vascular Anatomy

Fluorescent angiograms as movies and annotated diagrams.

vasculature

pharyngula through larva

http://zfish.nichd.nih.gov/Intro%20Page/intro1.html

Produced by Brant Weinstein’s group at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD, USA).

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ZFAP

Graphics from the FishNet atlas within a viewer that shows three orthogonal planes.

body

pharyngula through adult

http://zebrafish.anatomyportal.org

Zebrafish Anatomy Portal

From Robert Bryson-Richardson’s group at Monash University (Clayton, VIC, Australia).

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Zebrafish Atlas

Histological sections and a virtual slide viewer. Slides from two developmental stages are annotated.

body

larva through adult

http://bio-atlas.psu.edu/zf

From the laboratory of Keith Cheng at Penn State College of Medicine (Hershey, PA, USA).

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