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Commissure formation in the embryonic CNS of Drosophila.
Developmental biology - 15 May 1999
Hummel T, Schimmelpfeng K, Klämbt C
Abstract excerpt
In the ventral nerve cord of Drosophila most axons are organized in a simple, ladder-like pattern. Two segmental commissures connect the hemisegments along the mediolateral and two longitudinal connectives connect individual neuromeres along the anterior-posterior axis. Cells located at the midline of the developing CNS first guide commissural growth cones toward and across the midline. In later stages, midline...
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