Searching for guidance cues: Follow the Sidestep trail

Fly

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 270-273

  Aberle, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Beaten path; Drosophila; Labeled substrate pathway; Motor axons; Nerve assembly; Pathfinding; Sensory axons; Sidestep

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011939695     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.9790     Document Type: Article

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