Photoreceptor axons play hide and seek

Javier Morante; Claude Desplan

doi:10.1038/nn0405-401

Photoreceptor axons play hide and seek

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The outer photoreceptors of Drosophila project to their targets in an extremely intricate pattern. Prakash et al. in this issue show that homophilic adhesion via N-cadherins is an essential part of the axon guidance mechanism in this system. The new results suggest that axons respond to the level of N-cadherins, and not to any combinatorial cadherin code, as had been postulated previously.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	401-402
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Neuroscience
Volume	8
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0405-401
State	Published - Apr 2005

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