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Morphological Analysis of Drosophila Larval Peripheral Sensory Neuron Dendrites and Axons Using Genetic Mosaics
Published on: November 7, 2011
Transcriptional control of dendritic patterning in Drosophila neurons
Michel Tassetto1, Fen-Biao Gao
1Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, and Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Genome Biology
|August 2, 2006
Abstract:
How the morphology of individual neurons is controlled remains poorly understood. A recent in vivo genome-wide screen based on RNA interference identified a large number of transcriptional factors that regulate the stereotyped growth and branching of dendrites on some Drosophila sensory neurons.

