FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term adult abdominal ventral anterior lateral (female) dsx/Mip neuron ID (Ontology) FBbt:00047368 (Fly Anatomy)
Definition Doublesex and myoinhibitory peptide (Mip)-expressing local interneuron of the adult female that has its soma in a relatively ventral and lateral location in the anterior abdominal neuromere (Jang et al., 2017). There are two of these cells per hemisphere in the female and there is no male equivalent (Jang et al., 2017). It extensively innervates the abdominal ganglion, where it has input and output terminals, it also sends an axon along the midline to the metathoracic neuromere, where it has presynaptic terminals (Jang et al., 2017). Its activity is required for normal mating receptivity in virgin flies (Jang et al., 2017).[ FlyBase:FBrf0237271 ]
Also Known As "vAL neuron" ; "ventral abdominal lateral neuron" ; "ventral anterior lateral neuron of the AG"
Comment AVAG cluster in Min et al. (2016) - FBrf0231362 includes this (vAL) and non-immunopositive vAM in Jiang et al. (2017).
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adult central nervous system
 |__adult ventral nerve cord___________________
 |__adult interneuron__________________________|
ventral nerve cord                             |
 |__adult ventral nerve cord___________________|
interneuron                                    |
 |__adult interneuron__________________________|
ganglion                                       |
 |__adult ventral nerve cord___________________|
female organism                                |
 |__adult abdominal doublesex (female) neuron__|
ventral ectoderm derivative                    |
 |__adult ventral nerve cord___________________|
myoinhibitory peptide neuron                   |
 |__adult myoinhibitory peptide neuron_________|
female-specific anatomical entity              |
 |__female-specific neuron_____________________|
sexually-dimorphic neuron                      |
 |__female-specific neuron_____________________|
adult abdominal doublesex neuron               |
 |__adult abdominal doublesex (female) neuron__|
adult peptidergic neuron                       |
 |__adult myoinhibitory peptide neuron_________|
adult CNS neuron                               |
 |__adult interneuron__________________________|
                                               adult abdominal ventral anterior lateral (female) dsx/Mip neuron  1 rec.
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Is a adult abdominal doublesex (female) neuron
adult myoinhibitory peptide neuron
female-specific neuron
adult interneuron
Part of adult ventral nerve cord
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