part of capable of part of receives synaptic input in region sends synaptic output to region adult ventral nerve cord adult abdominal doublesex (female) neuron adult abdominal ventral anterior lateral (female) dsx/Mip neuron 2021-01-26T10:36:03Z AVAG cluster in Min et al. (2016) - FBrf0231362 includes this (vAL) and non-immunopositive vAM in Jiang et al. (2017). FBbt:00047368 adult AVAG Mip neuron Doublesex and myoinhibitory peptide (Mip)-expressing local interneuron of the adult female that has its soma in a relatively ventral and lateral location in the anterior abdominal neuromere (Jang et al., 2017). There are two of these cells per hemisphere in the female and there is no male equivalent (Jang et al., 2017). It extensively innervates the abdominal ganglion, where it has input and output terminals, it also sends an axon along the midline to the metathoracic neuromere, where it has presynaptic terminals (Jang et al., 2017). Its activity is required for normal mating receptivity in virgin flies (Jang et al., 2017). vAL neuron VFB:FBbt_00047368 ventral abdominal lateral neuron fly_anatomy.ontology ventral anterior lateral neuron of the AG adult myoinhibitory peptide neuron female-specific neuron adult interneuron adult abdominal neuromere adult metathoracic neuromere regulation of female receptivity