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Various types of sense organs are arranged in a highly reproducible pattern on the thoracic and abdominal segments ofDrosophila embryos and larvae. We describe this pattern and identify the neurons that innervate each sense organ. This identification is confirmed by the analysis of partial deficiencies for the scute region, which delete specifically some of the sense organs and their innervating neurons. Since our description of the sense organs accounts for all the sensory neurons that have been identified in the embryo, we believe that this description is accurate and complete, except in the terminal segment, where some sense organs remain to be identified.
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Dambly-Chaudière, C., Ghysen, A. The sense organs in theDrosophila larva and their relation to the embryonic pattern of sensory neurons. Roux’s Arch Dev Biol 195, 222–228 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02438954
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