PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Court, Robert Christopher
AU  - Armstrong, James
AU  - Börner, Jana
AU  - Card, Gwyneth
AU  - Costa, Marta
AU  - Dickinson, Michael
AU  - Duch, Carsten
AU  - Korff, Wyatt
AU  - Mann, Richard
AU  - Merritt, David
AU  - Murphey, Rod
AU  - Namiki, Shigehiro
AU  - Seeds, Andrew
AU  - Shepherd, David
AU  - Shirangi, Troy
AU  - Simpson, Julie
AU  - Truman, James
AU  - Tuthill, John
AU  - Williams, Darren
TI  - A Systematic Nomenclature for the <em>Drosophila</em> Ventral Nervous System
AID  - 10.1101/122952
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 122952
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/26/122952.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/26/122952.full
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.