RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A Systematic Nomenclature for the <em>Drosophila</em> Ventral Nervous System
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 122952
DO 10.1101/122952
A1 Robert Christopher Court
A1 James Armstrong
A1 Jana Börner
A1 Gwyneth Card
A1 Marta Costa
A1 Michael Dickinson
A1 Carsten Duch
A1 Wyatt Korff
A1 Richard Mann
A1 David Merritt
A1 Rod Murphey
A1 Shigehiro Namiki
A1 Andrew Seeds
A1 David Shepherd
A1 Troy Shirangi
A1 Julie Simpson
A1 James Truman
A1 John Tuthill
A1 Darren Williams
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/26/122952.abstract
AB Insect nervous systems are proven and powerful model systems for neuroscience research with wide relevance in biology and medicine. However, descriptions of insect brains have suffered from a lack of a complete and uniform nomenclature. Recognising this problem the Insect Brain Name Working Group produced the 1rst agreed hierarchical nomenclature system for the adult insect brain, using Drosophila melanogaster as the reference framework, with other insect taxa considered to ensure greater consistency and expandability (Ito et al., 2014). Ito et al. (2014) purposely focused on the gnathal regions that account for approximately 50% of the adult CNS. We extend this nomenclature system to the sub-gnathal regions of the adult Drosophila nervous system to provide a nomenclature of the so-called ventral nervous system (VNS), which includes the thoracic and abdominal neuromeres that was not included in the original work and contains the neurons that play critical roles underpinning most 2y behaviours.