FijiWings: an open source toolkit for semiautomated morphometric analysis of insect wings.

ABSTRACT: Development requires coordination between cell proliferation and cell growth to pattern the proper size of tissues, organs, and whole organisms. The Drosophila wing has landmark features, such as the location of veins patterned by cell groups and trichome structures produced by individual cells, that are useful to examine the genetic contributions to both tissue and cell size. Wing size and trichome density have been measured manually, which is tedious and error prone, and although image processing and pattern-recognition software can quantify features in micrographs, this approach has not been applied to insect wings. Here we present FijiWings, a set of macros designed to perform semiautomated morphophometric analysis of a wing photomicrograph. FijiWings uses plug-ins installed in the Fij

SUBMITTER: Dobens AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3737183 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature