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Abstract
Despite the importance of the insect nervous system for functional and developmental neuroscience, descriptions of insect brains have suffered from a lack of uniform nomenclature. Ambiguous definitions of brain regions and fiber bundles have contributed to the variation of names used to describe the same structure. The lack of clearly determined neuropil boundaries has made it difficult to document precise locations of neuronal projections for connectomics study. To address such issues, a consortium of neurobiologists studying arthropod brains, the Insect Brain Name Working Group, has established the present hierarchical nomenclature system, using the brain of Drosophila melanogaster as the reference framework, while taking the brains of other taxa into careful consideration for maximum consistency and expandability. The following summarizes the consortium's nomenclature system and highlights examples of existing ambiguities and remedies for them. This nomenclature is intended to serve as a standard of reference for the study of the brain of Drosophila and other insects.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 755-765 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Neuron |
Volume | 81 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 19 Feb 2014 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- DROSOPHILA CENTRAL BRAIN
- HONEYBEE APIS-MELLIFERA
- MUSHROOM BODIES
- CENTRAL COMPLEX
- SCHISTOCERCA-GREGARIA
- NEURONAL ARCHITECTURE
- PROJECTION NEURONS
- NERVOUS-SYSTEM
- ANTENNAL LOBE
- GROUND-PLAN
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Structured and graphical queries for Drosophila neuroscience data
1/07/09 → 30/09/12
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Douglas Armstrong
- School of Informatics - Personal Chair in Systems Neurobiology
- Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
- Edinburgh Neuroscience
- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Person: Academic: Research Active