Genetic Analysis on the Role of Integrin during Axon Guidance in Drosophila

This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant NS35049, National Science Foundation Grant IBN-95-14531, and the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust (A.C.). We thank Dan Brower and Mike Graner (University of Arizona), Karen Stark (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Corey Goodman (University of California at Berkeley), and Emiko Suzuki (University of Tokyo) for generous gifts of reagents. We also thank Hiroyuki Kose (National Institute of Genetics, Japan) and Yasumitsu Takagi (Tsukuba Research Consortium, Japan) for discussion and Anna Huttenlocher, Steven Kaufman, Xiaomao Zhu, and the current members of the Chiba Lab (University of Illinois) for comments on this manuscript.

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Akira Chiba, B605 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory, 601 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.