Bridging the gap between postembryonic cell lineages and identified embryonic neuroblasts in the ventral nerve cord of Drosophila melanogaster

Biology Open

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 420-434

  Birkholz, Oliver ^a   Rickert, Christof ^a   Nowak, Julia ^a   Coban, Ivo C ^a   Technau, Gerhard M ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell lineage; Cns development; Drosophila; Flybow; Neuroblast; Segmental patterning

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; CELL LINEAGE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; LARVAL STAGE; MODEL; NERVE CORD; NEUROBLAST; NEUROMERE; THORAX;

EID: 84982311388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20466390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/bio.201411072     Document Type: Article

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