has characteristic fasciculates with receives synaptic input in region sends synaptic output to region receives synaptic input from neuron superior posterior slope inferior posterior slope wing neuropil haltere neuropil neck neuropil descending neuron of the posterior brain descending neuron of the posterior brain DNp22 2018-09-20T12:00:00Z VFB:FBbt_00047655 DNp22 Descending neuron belonging to the DNp group, having a cell body on the posterior surface of the brain (Namiki et al., 2018). It has dendritic arbors in the inferior and superior posterior slope that form a characteristic Y shape (Suver et al., 2016; Namiki et al., 2018). It receives a large amount of input from ocellar ganglion interneurons (Dorkenwald et al., 2024; Schlegel et al., 2024). In the VNC, it fasciculates with the median tract of the dorsal cervical fascicle and has outputs in the neck, wing and haltere neuropils (Suver et al., 2016; Namiki et al., 2018). There is one of these cells per hemisphere and it remains ipsilateral (Namiki et al., 2018). DNOVS2 DNp22 FBbt:00047655 DNut027 descending neuron of the ocellar and vertical system 2 fly_anatomy.ontology ocellar ganglion interneuron adult median tract of dorsal cervical fasciculus unilateral