Neurodevelopment: UNC-40/DCC and the Patterning of Neural Circuits.

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Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 675 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5835, USA. Electronic address:

Published: November 2020

A new study in Caenorhabditis elegans suggests the ubiquitin-proteasome system promotes degradation of the netrin receptor UNC-40 in a particular neuron only in one sex, leading to sex-specific patterns of synaptic connections.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.102DOI Listing

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