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Axon pruning: C. elegans makes the cut
1UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Pathology, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5635, USA. william.wadsworth@umdnj.edu
Current Biology : CB
|October 11, 2005
Abstract:
Axon pruning has recently been described in the simple nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Generating excess processes and pruning may be a phylogenetically conserved feature reflecting a flexibility to modify neural circuits.

