is a pair of dorsal nerve cords instead.

For the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the connectome of the ventral nerve cord (and its connections to the brain) has been reconstructed down to the level of individual neurons and synapses, for both male and female flies. See Drosophila connectome.

Function

Like the vertebrate spinal cord, the function of the ventral nerve cord is to integrate

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