Article Information
- Received October 8, 2008
- Revision received October 28, 2008
- Accepted November 1, 2008
- First published December 17, 2008.
- Version of record published December 17, 2008.
Author Information
- 1Department of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, and
- 2Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan
- Correspondence should be addressed to either Takeshi Awasaki or Tzumin Lee at the above address. takeshi.awasaki{at}umassmed.edu or tzumin.lee{at}umassmed.edu
Author contributions
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↵*T.A. and S.-L.L. contributed equally to this study.
Disclosures
- Received October 8, 2008.
- Revision received October 28, 2008.
- Accepted November 1, 2008.
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This work was supported by Naito Foundation to T.A., a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan to K.I., and the United States National Institutes of Health to T.L. We are grateful to M. R. Freeman for communicating results before publication; M. R. Freeman and Bloomington Stock Center for fly strains; G. G. Technau and Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank for antibodies; H.-H. Yu for sharing UAS-mCD8::RFP strains before publication; the members of Ito's laboratory for screening of fly strains; members of Lee's laboratory for fruitful discussion; and B. Leung for critical reading of this manuscript.
- Correspondence should be addressed to either Takeshi Awasaki or Tzumin Lee at the above address. takeshi.awasaki{at}umassmed.edu or tzumin.lee{at}umassmed.edu