Article
Genes that control ray sensory neuron axon development in the Caenorhabditis elegans male.
Genetics - 1 Jul 2006
Jia Lingyun, Emmons Scott W
Abstract excerpt
We have studied how a set of male-specific sensory neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans establish axonal connections during postembryonic development. In the adult male, 9 bilateral pairs of ray sensory neurons innervate an acellular fan that serves as a presumptive tactile and olfactory organ during copulation. We visualized ray axon commissures with a ray neuron-specific reporter gene and studied both known and...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Axons
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
- Cell Adhesion Molecules
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Green Fluorescent Proteins
- Male
- Mutation
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
