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Slit-Robo signalling prevents sensory cells from crossing the midline in Drosophila.
Mechanisms of development - 1 May 2004
Orgogozo Virginie, Schweisguth François, Bellaïche Yohanns
Abstract excerpt
Maintenance of bilateral symmetry throughout animal development requires that both left and right halves of the body follow nearly identical patterns of cell proliferation, differentiation, death and migration. During formation of the perfectly bilateral Drosophila larval peripheral nervous system (PNS), the sensory precursor cells of the ventral multidendritic neuron vmd1a originating from each hemisegment...
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