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Activity-independent prespecification of synaptic partners in the visual map of Drosophila.
Current biology : CB - 19 Sept 2006
Hiesinger P Robin, Zhai R Grace, Zhou Yi, Koh Tong-Wey, Mehta Sunil Q, Schulze Karen L, Cao Yu, Verstreken Patrik, Clandinin Thomas R, Fischbach Karl-Friedrich, Meinertzhagen Ian A, Bellen Hugo J
Abstract excerpt
Specifying synaptic partners and regulating synaptic numbers are at least partly activity-dependent processes during visual map formation in all systems investigated to date . In Drosophila, six photoreceptors that view the same point in visual space have to be sorted into synaptic modules called...
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