ventral nerve cord [FBbt_00005097]

ventral nerve cord

ID: FBbt_00005097

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).