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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Biol. 2015 Mar 13;402(1):32–47. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2015.03.005

Table 1.

List of abbreviations of neuropil fascicles and larval neuropil compartments (left) and adult neuropil compartments (center, right).

Fascicles Abbr. Compartments
(adult)
Abbr. Compartments
(adult) cont’d
Abbr.
Commissure of the lateral accessory lobe LALC Antennal lobe AL Posteriorlateral protocerebrum PLP
Dorsolateral root of the fan-shaped body dlrFB Antenno-mechanosensory AMMC Anterior periesophageal neuropil PENPa
Dorsomedial root of the fan-shaped body dmrFB and motor center Protocerebral bridge PB
Great commissure GC Anterior optic tubercle AOTU Subesophageal ganglion SEG
Intermediate superior transverse fascicle trSI Bulb BU Superior intermediate SIP
Longitudinal superior medial fascicle loSM Ellipsoid body EB protocerebrum
  Anterior loSM loSMa Fan-shaped body FB Superior lateral protocerebrum SLP
  Posterior loSM loSMp Inferior protocerebrum IP   Anterior SLP SLPa
Medial antennal lobe tract mALT   Anterior IP IPa   Posterior SLP SLPp
Medial equatorial fascicle MEF   Lateral IP IPl Superior medial protocerebrum SMP
Oblique posterior fascicle obP   Medial IP IPm Inferior ventrolateral cerebrum VLCi
Posterior lateral fascicle PLF   Posterior IP IPp Ventrolateral protocerebrum VLP
Subellipsoid body commissure SuEC Lateral accessory lobe LAL   Anterior VLP VLPa

Lateral horn LH   Posterior VLP VLPp
Compartments (larval) Abbr. Mushroom body MB Ventromedial cerebrum VMC

Central complex primordium CCXp   Calyx CA   Anterior VMC VMCa
Ellipsoid body primordium EBpr   Medial lobe ML Infracommissural VMC VMCi
Fan-shaped body primordium FBpr   Pedunculus PED Postcommissural VMC VMCpo
  Spur SPU Precommissural VMC VMCpr
  Vertical lobe VL Supracommissural VMC VMCs
Noduli NO