Neuronal Development: Neighbors Have to Be Different

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Hummel, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; DSCAM PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; NEURONS;

EID: 36849033562     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.10.035     Document Type: Short Survey

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