TY - JOUR
T1 - A systematic nomenclature for the insect brain
AU - Ito, Kei
AU - Shinomiya, Kazunori
AU - Ito, Masayoshi
AU - Armstrong, J. Douglas
AU - Boyan, George
AU - Hartenstein, Volker
AU - Harzsch, Steffen
AU - Heisenberg, Martin
AU - Homberg, Uwe
AU - Jenett, Arnim
AU - Keshishian, Haig
AU - Restifo, Linda L.
AU - Rössler, Wolfgang
AU - Simpson, Julie H.
AU - Strausfeld, Nicholas J.
AU - Strauss, Roland
AU - Vosshall, Leslie B.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Gerald M. Rubin and the staff of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Daniel Gardner and the National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (HHSN271200577531C) for hosting workshops for intensive discussion. We thank David Osumi-Sutherland and FlyBase for discussion and hosting data distribution. The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science , the Japan Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences , and the Japan Science and Technology Agency financially supported the experiments required for the analysis. The Center for Insect Science (University of Arizona, Tucson) hosted groundwork discussions prior to the formation of the working group, and it supported the final copy editing and corrections of the manuscripts. We thank Sylvia Anton, Ann-Shyn Chiang, Ron Davis, Barry Dickson, Randolf Menzel, Jürgen Rybak, and Camilla Strausfeld for critically reading and giving helpful comments on an earlier version of a system of nomenclature and numerous neuroscientists of the field for giving us valuable suggestions at conferences and upon email queries. We thank many other colleagues whose suggestions have contributed to the final descriptions and have profited from the suggestions of the reviewers of this paper.
PY - 2014/2/19
Y1 - 2014/2/19
N2 - 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 ofneurobiologists 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 astandard of reference for the study of the brain of Drosophila and other insects.
AB - 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 ofneurobiologists 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 astandard of reference for the study of the brain of Drosophila and other insects.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.12.017
DO - 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.12.017
M3 - Article
C2 - 24559671
AN - SCOPUS:84896691863
SN - 0896-6273
VL - 81
SP - 755
EP - 765
JO - Neuron
JF - Neuron
IS - 4
ER -