Sharing Neuron Data: Carrots, Sticks, and Digital Records
Fig 1
Top: screenshot of NeuroMorpho.Org (captured on July 10, 2015). Bottom: numbers of downloaded reconstructions as of version 6.1 (May 2015) by anatomical region (left) and species (right). In the region pie, “PNS” stands for peripheral nervous system and “Others” include (in order of downloads) mushroom body, basal ganglia, somatic nervous system, visual lobe, adult central complex, ventrolateral neuropils, medulla, antennal lobe, cerebellum, ventral thalamus, amygdala, lateral horn, subesophageal ganglion, hypothalamus, adult subesophageal zone, dorsal thalamus, pharyngeal nervous system, ventral nerve cord, midbrain, stomatogastric ganglion, lateral line organ, pons, and lateral complex. In the species pie, “Others” include (in order of downloads) cricket, salamander, Caenorhabditis elegans, elephant, blowfly, goldfish, agouti, sheep, guinea pig, zebrafish, chicken, proechimys, dragonfly, rabbit, turtle, frog, spiny lobster, and moth.