Development in the absence of skeletal muscle results in the sequential ablation of motor neurons from the spinal cord to the brain.

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Mice lacking the transcription factors Myf-5 and MyoD lack all skeletal muscle and therefore present a unique opportunity to investigate the dependence of nervous system development on myogenesis. Motor neurons arose normally in the spinal cord of mutant embryos and by birth all somatic motor neurons were eliminated by apoptosis. By contrast, interneurons were not affected. Proprioceptive sensory neurons in the...

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