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Morphological Analysis of Drosophila Larval Peripheral Sensory Neuron Dendrites and Axons Using Genetic Mosaics
Published on: November 7, 2011
Sensory neurones recognise defined pathways in Drosophila central nervous system
Nature
|August 31, 1978
Abstract:
An analysis of the central projection of various sensory neurones in the homoeotic mutant bithorax postbithorax, and in flies where an adult nerve had been experimentally misrouted, reveals that neurones are able to develop a normal projection even if they enter the central nervous system at an unusual place.
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01:31What is a Sensory System?
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01:29Overview of Somatic Sensory Pathways
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