The protocadherin Flamingo is required for axon target selection in the Drosophila visual system

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 557-563

  Lee, Roger C ^a   Clandinin, Thomas R ^a,b   Lee, Chi Hon ^a,d   Chen, Pei Ling ^b   Meinertzhagen, Ian A ^c   Zipursky, S Lawrence ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; FLAMINGO PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTOCADHERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FLAMINGO GENE; FMI GENE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GROWTH CONE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MUTANT; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROWTH CONES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOSAICISM; MUTATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0038697972     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1063     Document Type: Article

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