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Transcriptional control of dendritic patterning in Drosophila neurons

Michel Tassetto and Fen-Biao Gao email

Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, and Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA

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Genome Biology 2006, 7:225doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-7-225

Published: 28 July 2006

Subject areas: Development, Neurobiology, Genome studies, Cell biology, Model organisms, Molecular biology

Abstract

How the morphology of individual neurons is controlled remains poorly understood. A recent in vivo genome-wide screen based on RNA interference identified a large number of transcriptional factors that regulate the stereotyped growth and branching of dendrites on some Drosophila sensory neurons.


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