Competition is a driving force in topographic mapping

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 47, 2011, Pages 19060-19065

  Triplett, Jason W ^a   Pfeiffenberger, Cory ^a   Yamada, Jena ^a   Stafford, Ben K ^a   Sweeney, Neal T ^a   Litke, Alan M ^b   Sher, Alexander ^a,b   Koulakov, Alexei A ^c   Feldheim, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN A1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL COUNT; COMPETITION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RETINA; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 82755187749     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102834108     Document Type: Article

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