@article {65723,
	title = {A systematic nomenclature for the Drosophila ventral nerve cord.},
	journal = {Neuron},
	volume = {107},
	year = {2020},
	month = {2020 Sep 14},
	pages = {1071-79},
	abstract = {<p>Drosophila melanogaster is an established model for neuroscience research with relevance in biology and medicine. Until recently, research on the Drosophila brain was hindered by the lack of a complete and uniform nomenclature. Recognizing this, Ito et\&nbsp;al. (2014) produced an authoritative nomenclature for the adult insect brain, using Drosophila as the reference. Here, we extend this nomenclature to the adult thoracic and abdominal neuromeres, the ventral nerve cord (VNC), to provide an anatomical description of this major component of the Drosophila nervous system. The VNC is the locus for the reception and integration of sensory information and involved in generating most of the locomotor actions that underlie fly behaviors. The aim is to create a nomenclature, definitions, and spatial boundaries for the Drosophila VNC that are consistent with other insects. The work establishes an anatomical framework that provides a powerful tool for analyzing the functional organization of the VNC.</p>
},
	issn = {1097-4199},
	doi = {10.1016/j.neuron.2020.08.005},
	author = {Court, Robert and Namiki, Shigehiro and Armstrong, J Douglas and Borner, Jana and Card, Gwyneth and Costa, Marta and Dickinson, Michael and Duch, Carsten and Korff, Wyatt and Mann, Richard and Merritt, David and Murphey, Rod K and Seeds, Andrew M and Shirangi, Troy and Simpson, Julie H and Truman, James W and Tuthill, John C and Williams, Darren W and Shepherd, David}
}
@article {48657,
	title = {A systematic nomenclature for the Drosophila ventral nervous system.},
	journal = {bioRxiv},
	year = {2017},
	month = {2017 Apr 26},
	abstract = {<p>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.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1101/122952},
	author = {Court, Robert Christopher and Armstrong, James Douglas and Borner, Jana and Card, Gwyneth M and Costa, Marta and Dickinson, Michael H and Duch, Carsten and Korff, Wyatt and Mann, Richard S and Merritt, David and Murphey, Rodney K and Namiki, Shigehiro and Seeds, Andrew M and Shepherd, David and Shirangi, Troy R and Simpson, Julie H and Truman, James W and Tuthill, John C and Williams, Darren W}
}
