Preparation

Optic lobes of a dragonfly nymph Aeschna grandis (Insecta, Odonata)

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Collection 29

Collection
Number

ZIN-AAZ-NSI-4-3

Species: Aeshna grandis (Linnaeus, 1758)    Arthropoda

Preparation Type: whole mount

Prepared: A.A. Zavarzin, S.I. Plotnikova

Description: Series of sections through three optical lobes of a dragonfly nymph. One can see nerve cells and nerve plexuses of different types, as well as afferent and efferent processes

Method: Golgi method of silver impregnation of nervous elements

Method Description: unknown

Institution: Zoological Institute RAS

 

 

 

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The 3d optic lobe of a dragonfly nymph Aeschna grandis (Insecta, Odonata) with nerve elements, revealed by silver impregnation

Preparation

ZIN-AAZ-NSI-4-3

Description: Nerve cells and nerve plexuses of different types, afferent and efferent processes

Organs: ganglion / ganglia, cerebral brain or its part, neuron(s), larval nervous system

Methods: Neurohistology - Golgi method of silver impregnation of nervous elements

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