The generation of individual neuron types in the nervous system is a multistep process
whose endpoint is the expression of neuron type–specific batteries of terminal differentiation …

Neural cell fate programs must generate an enormous number of neurons with distinct adult
functions. The decision to choose one neuronal subtype from two alternatives—a binary fate …

The identity of specific cell types in the nervous system is defined by the expression of
neuron type–specific gene batteries. How the expression of such batteries is initiated during …

Highlights•Terminal selector control terminal steps of neuronal identity acquisition.•Terminal
selectors establish and maintain neuron type-specific identity features.•Terminal selectors …

Embryologists have long used morphological characteristics, and more recently marker
genes, to identify neural tissue and to test the neural-inducing activity of specific cell …

Our present day understanding of nervous system development is an amalgam of insights
gained from studying different aspects and stages of nervous system development in a …

Individual neuronal cell types are defined by the expression of unique batteries of terminal
differentiation genes. The elucidation of the cis-regulatory architecture of several distinct …

The analysis of the developmental programs that define many different neuron types in the
nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has revealed common themes in how distinct terminal …

Neuroblasts generate neurons with different functions by asymmetric cell division, cell cycle
exit and differentiation. The underlying transcriptional regulatory pathways remain elusive …

The sophisticated circuitry of the neocortex is assembled from a diverse repertoire of
neuronal subtypes generated during development under precise molecular regulation. In …