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Transcriptional control of dendritic patterning in Drosophila neurons
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* Corresponding author: Fen-Biao Gao fgao@gladstone.ucsf.edu
Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, and Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Genome Biology 2006, 7:225 doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-7-225
Published: 28 July 2006Abstract
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.