Dendritic arbors: a tale of living tiles.
What governs the shape and size of a neuron's dendritic arbor? Part of the answer lies in the rules that govern interactions between dendrites. Interesting new insights into these rules have come from two recent studies on the embryonic sensory system of Drosophila.
Ghysen
Alain
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Laboratory of Neurogenetics, INSERM E343, cc103 Univ. Montpellier II, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France. aghysen@univ-montp2.fr
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