Year: 2017
Type: preprint
Abstract: The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster , is an established and powerful model system for neuroscience research with wide relevance in biology and medicine. Until recently, research on the Drosophila brain was hindered by the lack of a complete and uniform nomenclature. Recognising this problem, the Insect Brain Name Working Group produced an authoritative hierarchical nomenclature system for the adult insect brain, using Drosophila melanogaster as the reference framework, with other taxa considered to ensure greater consistency and expandability (Ito et al., 2014). Here, we extend this nomenclature system to the sub-gnathal regions of the adult Drosophila nervous system, thus providing a systematic anatomical description of the ventral nervous system (VNS). This portion of the nervous system includes the thoracic and abdominal neuromeres that were not included in the original work and contains the motor circuits that play essential roles in most fly behaviours.
DOI: 10.1101/122952
Authors: Robert Court, Shigehiro Namiki, J Douglas Armstrong, Jana Börner, Gwyneth Card, Marta Costa, Michael Dickinson, Carsten Duch, Wyatt Korff, Richard Mann, David Merritt, Rod K Murphey, Andrew Seeds, Troy Shirangi, Julie H. Simpson, James W Truman, John Tuthill, Darren Williams, David Shepherd
Institutions: University of Edinburgh, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Florida Atlantic University, University of Cambridge, California Institute of Technology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Columbia University, The University of Queensland, University of Puerto Rico System, Villanova University, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Washington, Friday Harbor Laboratories, King's College London, Bangor University
Language: English
Subfield: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2609054197