• Antenna, auditory apparatus, sound sensation, and mechanosensation
• Brain
  • Development of the Adult Brain
  • Development of the Optic Lobe - A site for processing visual information
  • The Central Body Complex - A site for combining sensory information to generate appropriate behaviorial responses
  • Mushroom Bodies - A site for formation and retrieval of memories
• Central nervous system also known as the ventral cord
• Dendritic development
• Dorsal closure
• Eye
• Fat body and the regulation of fat metabolism
• Gastrulation
• Genitalia
• Germband extension
• Germband retraction
• Glia
• Gonads - ovaries and testis and associated structures
• Gut ectoderm - foregut and hindgut
• Gut endoderm - anterior and posterior midgut - midgut
• Handed asymmetry in organ shape and positioning
• Head
• Haemocytes and the Lymph Gland
• Heart
• Imaginal disc determination
• Labial disc - proboscis and labial palps
• Legs
• Lymph Gland
• Malpighian tubules
• Midgut
• Mitochondria
• Mushroom Bodies - A site for formation and retrieval of memories
• Muscle - heart, somatic and visceral
• Neuromodulation: Dopaminergic, Octopaminergic and Serotonergic Nervous Systems
• Neurons: Development, connectivity and neural processing
• Olfactory system: Odor receptors, olfactory receptor neurons, odor sensation and olfactory learning<
• Oogenesis
• Peripheral nervous system
• Respiratory system - tracheae and spiracles
• Ring gland - The combined prothoracic glands, corpus allatum, and corpus cardiacum
• Salivary gland
• Stomatogastric nervous system
• Subesophageal ganglion
• Testis and spermatogenesis
• Ventral midline of the central nervous system
• Ventral Nervous System
• Wings

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