Number of boutons in hemisegment of embryo

Value 165.4 boutons/hemisegment Range: ±3.5 boutons/hemisegment
Organism Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
Reference Narayanan R, Krämer H, Ramaswami M. Drosophila endosomal proteins hook and deep orange regulate synapse size but not synaptic vesicle recycling. J Neurobiol. 2000 Nov 5 45(2):105-19 p.114 left column bottom paragraphPubMed ID11018772
Method Electrophysiology and microscopy of larval neuromuscular junctions (NMJs)
Comments Note- PMID 2501154 p.890 left column top paragraph gives ~250 neurons per hemisegment of the embryo
Entered by Uri M
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