Trends in Genetics
Volume 5, 1989, Pages 251-255
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Genesis of the Drosophila peripheral nervous system

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Abstract

The formation of a sense organ in Drosophila is a progressive process which begins with the local acquisition of a ‘proneural’ state. Mutations altering different steps of this process reveal the existence of several distinct operations, some of which are mediated by transcriptional regulation while others involve cell interactions.

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