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.
%0 Journal Article
%1 ito_systematic_2014
%A Ito, Kei
%A Shinomiya, Kazunori
%A Ito, Masayoshi
%A Armstrong, J. Douglas
%A Boyan, George
%A Hartenstein, Volker
%A Harzsch, Steffen
%A Heisenberg, Martin
%A Homberg, Uwe
%A Jenett, Arnim
%A Keshishian, Haig
%A Restifo, Linda L.
%A Rössler, Wolfgang
%A Simpson, Julie H.
%A Strausfeld, Nicholas J.
%A Strauss, Roland
%A Vosshall, Leslie B.
%A Group, Insect Brain Name Working
%D 2014
%J Neuron
%K brain drosophila insect neuropil nomenclature
%N 4
%P 755--765
%R 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.12.017
%T A Systematic Nomenclature for the Insect Brain
%U http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(13)01178-1
%V 81
%X 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.
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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.},
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author = {Ito, Kei and Shinomiya, Kazunori and Ito, Masayoshi and Armstrong, J. Douglas and Boyan, George and Hartenstein, Volker and Harzsch, Steffen and Heisenberg, Martin and Homberg, Uwe and Jenett, Arnim and Keshishian, Haig and Restifo, Linda L. and Rössler, Wolfgang and Simpson, Julie H. and Strausfeld, Nicholas J. and Strauss, Roland and Vosshall, Leslie B. and Group, Insect Brain Name Working},
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doi = {10.1016/j.neuron.2013.12.017},
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journal = {Neuron},
keywords = {brain drosophila insect neuropil nomenclature},
month = feb,
number = 4,
pages = {755--765},
timestamp = {2014-04-17T15:58:46.000+0200},
title = {A Systematic Nomenclature for the Insect Brain},
url = {http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(13)01178-1},
urldate = {2014-03-24},
volume = 81,
year = 2014
}