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Acknowledgements
We thank M. Schubiger for helpful discussions; T. Awasaki for informing us about the second site mutation on the draper Δ5 chromosome; E. Baehrecke (University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, College Park, Maryland), S. Kumar (Hanson Institute and Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science Adelaide, Australia), P. Meier (Institute of Cancer Research, London), W. Grueber (Columbia University, New York), J. Abrams (University of Texas/Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas), W. Johnson (University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa), G. Schubiger and S. McNabb (University of Washington, Seattle), M. Freeman (University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts) and the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center at Indiana University for fly stocks; A. Miyawaki (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan) for plasmids; and S. Lennox for technical assistance. Research was supported by grants from the US National Institutes of Health (NS-029971), the Medical Research Council and the CREST program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency.
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Darren W Williams & Agnieszka Krzyzanowska - Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, Washington, USA
Darren W Williams & James W Truman - Department of Developmental Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, 411-8540, Shizuoka, Japan
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D.W.W. designed the study, conducted the experimental work, interpreted the data and wrote the manuscript. A.K. generated the adult viable draper Δ5 chromosome and assisted with experimental work. S.K. designed and built the caspase probe, helped interpret data and assisted in writing the manuscript. Y.H. and J.W.T. contributed to experimental design, data interpretation and writing of the manuscript.
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Williams, D., Kondo, S., Krzyzanowska, A. et al. Local caspase activity directs engulfment of dendrites during pruning.Nat Neurosci 9, 1234–1236 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1774
- Received: 17 July 2006
- Accepted: 25 August 2006
- Published: 17 September 2006
- Issue Date: 01 October 2006
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1774