The invention discloses a recombinant
rabies virus genome plasmid for high-sensitivity expression of red
fluorescent protein, a recombinant
rabies virus as well as a preparation method and application of the recombinant
rabies virus. The preparation method specifically comprises the following steps: (1) constructing the recombinant
rabies virus genome plasmid for high-sensitivity expression of red
fluorescent protein as shown in SEQ ID NO.2; (2) preparing a recombinant
rabies virus for expressing the red
fluorescent protein with high sensitivity; and (3) application of the recombinant
rabies virus for high-sensitivity expression of the red fluorescent
protein in neural circuit tracing. The recombinant rabies virus capable of highly sensitively expressing the red fluorescent
protein can efficiently mark an upstream neural network in a retrograde manner, so that the problem of low efficiency of expressing
red fluorescence in the existing method is solved; the method has wide application value and market prospect in the aspects of neural circuit
structure and function analysis,
neuron sparse marking, vaccine and
drug research and development,
disease model establishment, neural network loss and reconstruction detection, virus replication or pathogenic mechanism research and the like.