Article Information
- Received January 23, 2012
- Revision received September 10, 2012
- Accepted September 26, 2012
- First published November 21, 2012.
- Version of record published November 21, 2012.
Author Information
- Bhaskar Saha1,2,3,
- Athéna R. Ypsilanti1,2,3,
- Camille Boutin4,
- Harold Cremer4, and
- Alain Chédotal1,2,3
- 1Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, UMR S968,
- 2Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI, UMR S968, and
- 3CNRS UMR 7210, Institut de la Vision, F-75012 Paris, France, and
- 4Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille Luminy, UMR 6216, CNRS/Université de la Méditerrannée, Campus de Luminy, F-13288 Marseille, France
Author contributions
Author contributions: A.C. designed research; B.S., A.R.Y., C.B., and H.C. performed research; C.B. and H.C. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; B.S., A.R.Y., and A.C. analyzed data; B.S., A.R.Y., and A.C. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received January 23, 2012.
- Revision received September 10, 2012.
- Accepted September 26, 2012.
This work was supported by a grant from the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM) (Programme Équipe) (A.C.). B.S. was a recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Fyssen Foundation and the Neuropole Région Île-de-France. A.R.Y. was supported by fellowships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the FRM, and the Paris School of Neurosciences. We thank Dr. M. Okabe (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan) for the pCX::GFP plasmid, M. Tessier-Lavigne (Rockefeller University, New York, NY) for providing the Plxnb2 knock-out, and S. Fouquet (Imaging Facility of the Vision Institute) for help with quantification and image acquisition.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Alain Chédotal, Institut de la Vision, 17 Rue Moreau, F-75012 Paris, France. alain.chedotal{at}inserm.fr
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