This Week in PLoS: Feb 10, 2009

Feb 11, 2009

In PLoS Biology this week, a paper out of Jeff Lichtman’s lab has reconstructed the connectomes, or the complete connectional maps of neural circuits, of six interscutularis muscles from adult transgenic mice expressing fluorescent proteins in all motor axons.

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