@article {Court122952, author = {Robert Christopher Court and James Armstrong and Jana B{\"o}rner and Gwyneth Card and Marta Costa and Michael Dickinson and Carsten Duch and Wyatt Korff and Richard Mann and David Merritt and Rod Murphey and Shigehiro Namiki and Andrew Seeds and David Shepherd and Troy Shirangi and Julie Simpson and James Truman and John Tuthill and Darren Williams}, title = {A Systematic Nomenclature for the Drosophila Ventral Nervous System}, elocation-id = {122952}, year = {2017}, doi = {10.1101/122952}, publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}, 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 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.}, URL = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/26/122952}, eprint = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/26/122952.full.pdf}, journal = {bioRxiv} }