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- Received September 19, 2001
- Revision received December 7, 2001
- Accepted January 23, 2002
- First published April 15, 2002.
- Version of record published April 15, 2002.
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- Received September 19, 2001.
- Revision received December 7, 2001.
- Accepted January 23, 2002.
This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant IBN9904957 to R.K.M., National Institutes of Health Grant NS18366, and Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation Grant GBC1–9801-2 to C.S.G. J.H.S. is a predoctoral fellow and C.S.G. is an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. G.J.B. is a recipient of a Burroughs Wellcome Fund career award in the biomedical sciences. We thank Dr. A. Chiba for providing all UAS-comm fly lines, the Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas laboratory for providing the anti-Slit antibody, and the J. Bacon and J. Davies laboratories for theshakB(lethal)-Gal4 line.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Rodney K. Murphey, Department of Biology, Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. E-mail: rmurphey{at}bio.umass.edu.