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A Systematic Nomenclature for theDrosophilaVentral Nervous System
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2017.
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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 theDrosophilabrain 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, usingDrosophila melanogasteras 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 adultDrosophilanervous 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.
- Subjects :
- Nervous system
0303 health sciences
biology
media_common.quotation_subject
fungi
Adult insect
Anatomy
Insect
biology.organism_classification
Neuromere
3. Good health
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Taxon
medicine.anatomical_structure
medicine
Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila (subgenus)
Neuroscience
Nomenclature
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
030304 developmental biology
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d88d2bed291448e92319b9c685b4ae5f