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The Drosophila Giant Fiber System

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Normal functioning of the nervous system depends on the formation of vast numbers of specific connections between neurons. During development, each of the thousands, millions, or billions of cells in a nervous system connects with a specific set of target cells. We currently have no knowledge of the molecular basis of this specificity. The long-term goal of our work is to identify genes that are directly involved in neural connectivity and then to use this knowledge to identify the gene products necessary for proper connectivity. It will be a major advance in neuroscience if the class (or classes) of molecules involved in nerve-cell recognition and connection can be identified.

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  1. Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 06511, USA

    Robert J. Wyman

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, USA

    John B. Thomas

  3. Department of Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA

    Lawrence Salkoff

  4. Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, 62901, USA

    David G. King

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Wyman, R.J., Thomas, J.B., Salkoff, L., King, D.G. (1984). The Drosophila Giant Fiber System. In: Eaton, R.C. (eds) Neural Mechanisms of Startle Behavior. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2286-1_5

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