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Developing order

Nature volume 413, pages 471–473 (2001)Cite this article

Different types of nerve cells are made in a particular sequence during development. But how? Studies of fruitflies reveal a temporal order in the expression of the genes that regulate these decisions.

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Figure 1: Controlling neuronal fate in fruitflies, according to Isshiki and colleagues1.

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  1. the Wellcome/CRC Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QR, UK

    Rick Livesey

  2. the Department of Genetics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, 02113, Massachusetts, USA

    Connie Cepko

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