Contributing laboratories

Introduction

These datasets did not come to VFB through one of the large imaging projects. Each was produced by the laboratory that published it and deposited directly, so VFB carries no site cross-reference for the images. The imaging source is taken from the dataset’s cited paper, given below alongside it.

Datasets

Dataset	Contents	Imaging source	Paper	Records
Lee_Lineage2020	central brain neurons by lineage, Lee2020	Tzumin Lee lab, Janelia Research Campus	Lee et al., 2020, eLife	462
Cachero2010	Adult Brain fru clones (Cachero2010)	Jefferis lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge	Cachero et al., 2010, Curr. Biol.	119
Kohl2013	Third order olfactory neurons involved in pheromone response - backfills (Kohl2013)	Jefferis lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge	Kohl et al., 2013, Cell	111
Ito2013	Ito lab adult brain lineage clone image set	Kei Ito lab, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo	Ito et al., 2013, Curr. Biol.	96
Yu2013	Lee lab adult brain lineage clone image set	Tzumin Lee lab, Janelia Research Campus	Yu et al., 2013, Curr. Biol.	95
Xie2018	Split GAL4 lines for dopaminergic neurons, Xie2018	Mark Wu lab, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Xie et al., 2018, Cell Rep.	78
Matsuo2016	AMMC local and projection neurons (Matsuo2016)	Kamikouchi lab, Nagoya University, with the Ito lab, University of Tokyo	Matsuo et al., 2016, J. Comp. Neurol.	41
HeadMusclesMcKellar2020	Images of proboscis muscles from McKellar et al., 2020	Simpson and Dickson labs, Janelia Research Campus	McKellar et al., 2020, eLife	18
Nojima2021	Split-GAL4 lines from Nojima et al., 2021	Goodwin lab, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford	Nojima et al., 2021, Curr. Biol.	15
SplitNallasivan2025	Split-GAL4 lines from Nallasivan et al 2025	Soller lab, University of Birmingham	Nallasivan et al., 2026, eLife	6
McKellar2020	GAL4 lines from McKellar et al., 2020	Simpson and Dickson labs, Janelia Research Campus	McKellar et al., 2020, eLife	5
Lillvis2018	Neurons involved in courtship and song (Lillvis2018)	Stern and Dickson labs, Janelia Research Campus	Ding et al., 2019, Curr. Biol.	2

Records are the individuals VFB holds from each dataset.

Several of these studies use driver lines from Janelia or VDRC while acquiring their own images — Xie2018 and SplitNallasivan2025 both do — so the origin of a reagent is not the origin of an image. Several others use FlyCircuit or FlyLight material as a reference for annotation rather than as source imagery. Neither makes those projects the imaging source.

Citations are on each dataset’s own page on VFB; cite the original study rather than VFB when you use the images.