FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term ventral nerve cord ID (Ontology) FBbt:00005097 (Fly Anatomy)
Definition Posterior region of the central nervous system containing the thoracic and abdominal neuromeres (Clark et al., 2018; Court et al., 2020). In the larva it is joined at its anterior end to the posterior gnathal ganglion (Eschbach and Zlatic, 2020). In the adult it is a separate entity, connected to the brain by the neck connective (Ito et al., 2014; Court et al., 2020).[ FlyBase:FBrf0224194 FlyBase:FBrf0238752 FlyBase:FBrf0246815 FlyBase:FBrf0247585 ]
Also Known As "ventral nervous system"
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VFB:FBbt_00005097
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Data Class Field Records
Alleles (FBal)  PHENOTYPE_MANIFEST_IN       8
Insertions (FBti)  EXPRESSION_STAGE_TISSUE_POSITION       9
Constructs (FBtp)  PHENOTYPE_MANIFEST_IN       3
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 ventral nerve cord (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements)       8      1     46      9      7
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   |__organ system subdivision
       |__ventral nerve cord  4225 rec.
           |__adult ventral nerve cord 511 rec.
           |__embryonic ventral nerve cord 363 rec.
           |__larval ventral nerve cord 3574 rec.
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Is a organ system subdivision
Part of central nervous system
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UBERON:0000934
VFB:FBbt_00005097