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Inversion in the worm

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Combinations of spatially and temporally restricted transcription factors are shown to coordinate movement in nematode worms by controlling the formation of synaptic connections to and from motor neurons. See Letter p.83

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Figure 1: Transcriptional regulation of synaptic specificity.

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  1. Vilaiwan M. Fernandes and Claude Desplan are in the Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA.,

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Fernandes, V., Desplan, C. Inversion in the worm. Nature 523, 44–45 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/523044a

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