Genetic Analysis of Netrin Genes in Drosophila: Netrins Guide CNS Commissural Axons and Peripheral Motor Axons

Targeted gene expression as a means of altering cell fates and generating dominant phenotypes

Andrea H. Brand, Norbert Perrimon · Development · 1993 · 9.8K citations

Life Sciences, Developmental Biology, Genetics +17

The netrins define a family of axon outgrowth-promoting proteins homologous to C. elegans UNC-6

Tito Serafini, Timothy E. Kennedy, Michael J. Gaiko et al. · Cell · 1994 · 1.4K citations

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +12

Netrins are diffusible chemotropic factors for commissural axons in the embryonic spinal cord

Timothy E. Kennedy, Tito Serafini, José R. de la Torre et al. · Cell · 1994 · 1.3K citations

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +13

Distinct morphogenetic functions of similar small GTPases: Drosophila Drac1 is involved in axonal outgrowth and myoblast fusion.

Liqun Luo, Yanhong Liao, Lily Yeh Jan et al. · Genes & Development · 1994 · 1K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology +15

brahma: A regulator of Drosophila homeotic genes structurally related to the yeast transcriptional activator SNF2SWI2

John W. Tamkun, Renate Deuring, Matthew P. Scott et al. · Cell · 1992 · 963 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +11