Axon trapping: constructing the visual system one layer at a time

Tina Schwabe; Thomas R Clandinin

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2012.06.020

Axon trapping: constructing the visual system one layer at a time

Neuron. 2012 Jul 12;75(1):6-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.06.020.

Authors

Tina Schwabe¹, Thomas R Clandinin

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Abstract

The molecular mechanisms that instruct the formation of synaptic layers are only incompletely understood. In this issue of Neuron, Timofeev et al. (2012) describe an instructive role for the guidance molecule Netrin and its receptor Frazzled in mediating layer-specific targeting of one photoreceptor cell type in the Drosophila visual system.

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Grants and funding

R01 EY015231/EY/NEI NIH HHS/United States