TY - JOUR T1 - A Systematic Nomenclature for the <em>Drosophila</em> Ventral Nervous System JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/122952 SP - 122952 AU - Robert Christopher Court AU - James Armstrong AU - Jana Börner AU - Gwyneth Card AU - Marta Costa AU - Michael Dickinson AU - Carsten Duch AU - Wyatt Korff AU - Richard Mann AU - David Merritt AU - Rod Murphey AU - Shigehiro Namiki AU - Andrew Seeds AU - David Shepherd AU - Troy Shirangi AU - Julie Simpson AU - James Truman AU - John Tuthill AU - Darren Williams Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/26/122952.abstract N2 - 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. ER -