Genetic analysis of axon pattern formation in the embryonic CNS of Drosophila.

doi:10.1007/BF02480371

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Genetic analysis of axon pattern formation in the embryonic CNS of Drosophila.

Invertebrate neuroscience : IN - 1 Jan 2000

Klämbt C, Schimmelpfeng K, Hummel T

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The major axon tracts in the embryonic CNS of Drosophila are organised in a simple, ladder-like pattern. Each neuromere contains two commissures which connect the contra-lateral sides and two longitudinal connectives which connect the different neuromeres along the anterior-posterior axis. The co...

Topics

Animals
Axons
Body Patterning
Drosophila
Mutation
Nervous System

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