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Left-right wiring determined by neural communication in the embryonic worm
05-17-2007 · EurekAlert!The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has nerves on its left and right sides that perform different functions. Now, researchers at The Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute show that this arbitrary "handedness" in two types of olfactory nerve cells is established during development through a previously unseen system.
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