David Shepherd

Roughly 23 thousand traced neurons and 10 million TBars of the male Drosophila nerve cord, reconstructed from electron microscopy, typed, and queryable in neuPrint down to motor neurons.

The paper systematically annotates a complete adult male Drosophila nerve cord connectome, identifying neuron types, connectivity patterns, and sensory modalities to reveal organizational principles.

The paper identifies 196 cell types in the Drosophila ventral nerve cord using split-GAL4 and links them to a connectomic dataset for circuit analysis.

This study identifies three Drosophila neuron types that process leg proprioception, revealing how central circuits integrate sensory information to guide motor behavior.

The paper provides a systematic nomenclature for the Drosophila ventral nervous system, extending an existing framework to include thoracic and abdominal neuromeres.