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Nature Neuroscience 12, 532 - 534 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nn0509-532

The secret language of siblings

Tom Binzegger1

  1. The author is at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. e-mail: tom.binzegger@ncl.ac.uk


A recent study in Nature shows that sister neurons of the same lineage are preferentially interconnected to each other, thereby suggesting a local guidance mechanism using chemospecific markers.

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