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Published April 26, 2017 | Version Submitted
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A Systematic Nomenclature for the Drosophila Ventral Nervous System

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  • 1. ROR icon University of Edinburgh
  • 2. ROR icon Janelia Research Campus
  • 3. ROR icon Florida Atlantic University
  • 4. ROR icon University of Cambridge
  • 5. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 6. ROR icon Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
  • 7. ROR icon Columbia University
  • 8. ROR icon University of Queensland
  • 9. ROR icon Institute of Neurobiology
  • 10. ROR icon Villanova University
  • 11. ROR icon University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 12. ROR icon University of Washington
  • 13. ROR icon King's College London
  • 14. ROR icon Bangor University

Abstract

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 first 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 fly behaviours.

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The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY 4.0 International license. bioRxiv preprint first posted online Apr. 26, 2017. We thank Gerald M. Rubin and the staff of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus for hosting our workshop. Special thanks to Wyatt Korff and the other members of the organising committee for such a successful workshop. This work was initially supported in part by grants EP/F500385/1 and BB/F529254/1 for the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics Doctoral Training Centre in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience (http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/dtc) from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), and the UK Medical Research Council (MRC). Finally by the Welcome Trust as part of the 'Virtual Fly Brain: a global informatics hub for Drosophila neurobiology' WT105023MA.

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90237
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CaltechAUTHORS:20181010-145553319

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
EP/F500385/1
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
BB/F529254/1
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Medical Research Council (UK)
Wellcome Trust
WT105023MA

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2018-10-11
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