
The FlyLight Project Team at Janelia Research Campus has developed a large collection of 3,060 split-GAL4 driver lines that target diverse neuronal cell types across the adult Drosophila central nervous system, enabling precise genetic manipulation and analysis of these cell populations.


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Techniques that enable precise manipulations of subsets of neurons in the fly central nervous system 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 central nervous system 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. 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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A split-GAL4 driver line resource for Drosophila CNS cell types

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A Large Collection of Split-GAL4 Driver Lines Targeting Diverse Cell Types in the Drosophila Central Nervous System
