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Nature 402, 475-476 (2 December 1999) | doi:10.1038/44981

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Neurobiology: Derailed axons get on track

Kai Zinn1 & Aloisia Schmid1

How do growing axons in the central nervous system navigate through the dense jungle of cells and processes that they encounter on the way to their targets? On page 540 of this issue, Bonkowsky et al.1 show that the choice of pathways for growth cones (the leading edges of growing axons) in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is regulated by a receptor tyrosine kinase known as Derailed (Drl).

  1. Kai Zinn and Aloisia Schmid are in the Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.

Correspondence to: Kai Zinn1 e-mails: Email: zinnk@its.caltech.edu

Correspondence to: Aloisia Schmid1 Email: aschmid@its.caltech.edu