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Hamlet Notches fate

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Cell specification of olfactory receptor neurons in Drosophila is orchestrated by context-dependent response to Notch signaling mediated by Hamlet, which directs specific chromatin modifications in subsets of neurons.

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Figure 1: Reiterative use of Notch signaling during ORN development.

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  1. Dietmar Schmucker is at the Vesalius Research Center, Vlanders Institute of Biotechnology (VIB) and University Leuven (KU) Leuven School of Medicine, Leuven, Belgium.,

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  2. Bassem A. Hassan is at the VIB Center for Biology of Disease, VIB and KU Leuven School of Medicine, Leuven, Belgium, and the Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, USA.,

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