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SUBMITTER: Cuntz H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2588660 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cuntz Hermann H Forstner Friedrich F Haag Juergen J Borst Alexander A
PLoS computational biology 20081226 12
Dendrite morphology, a neuron's anatomical fingerprint, is a neuroscientist's asset in unveiling organizational principles in the brain. However, the genetic program encoding the morphological identity of a single dendrite remains a mystery. In order to obtain a formal understanding of dendritic branching, we studied distributions of morphological parameters in a group of four individually identifiable neurons of the fly visual system. We found that parameters relating to the branching topology ...[more]