Arborization pattern of Engrailed-positive neural lineages reveal neuromere boundaries in the Drosophila brain neuropil

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 517, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-104

  Kumar, Abhilasha ^a   Fung, S ^b   Lichtneckert, Robert ^a   Reichert, Heinrich ^a   Hartenstein, Volker ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arborization; Compartment; Engrailed; Lineage; Neuromere; Neuropil

Indexed keywords

ENGRAILED PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL LINEAGE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVA; NEUROBLAST; NEUROECTODERM; NEUROMERE; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRAIN; CELL LINEAGE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NEUROPIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 70349832430     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22112     Document Type: Article

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