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Patched regulation of axon guidance is by specifying neural identity in the Drosophila nerve cord.
Development genes and evolution - 1 Jun 2005
Merianda Tanuja T, Botta Vandana, Bhat Krishna Moorthi
Abstract excerpt
Within an axon bundle, one or two are pioneering axons and the rest are follower axons. Pioneering axons are projected first and the follower axons are projected later but follow a pioneering axon(s) pathway. It is not clear whether the pioneering axons have a guidance role for follower axons. In this paper, we have investigated the role of Patched (Ptc) in regulating the guidance of medial tract, one of the...
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