AP	Apical progenitor
aRG	Apical radial glia
BMP	Bone morphogenic protein
Cas	Castor
CCA	Canonical correlation analysis
CNS	Central nervous system
CP	Cortical plate
CRE	Cis regulatory element
dILPs	Insulin-like growth factors like peptides
E	Embryonic day
FGF2	Fibroblast growth factor 2
FISH	Fluorescence in situ hybridization
GMC	Ganglion mother cell
Hb	Hunchback
iNMF	Integrative non-negative matrix factorization
INP	Intermediate neural progenitors
IP	Intermediate progenitors
Kr	Krüppel
LIGER	Linked inference of genomic experimental relationships
LncRNA	Long noncoding RNA
MNN	Mutual nearest neighbor
NB	Neuroblasts
NEs	Neuroephitelial cells
NSC	Neural stem cells
OL	Optic lobe
PRC1	Polycomb repressive complex 1
PRC2	Polycomb repressive complex 2
PRE	Polycomb responsive element
PhoRC	Pleiotropic repressive complex
RA	Retinoic acid
scRNA-seq	Single-cells RNA sequencing
scATAC-seq	Single-cellsSingle cell Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high throughput sequencing
SPG	Subperineurial glial cells
SVZ	Subventricular zone
TAD	Topologically associating domains
TF	Transcription factor
tTF	Temporal transcription factors
VNC	Ventral nerve cord
VZ	Ventricular zone.