Media type: E-Article Title: Fishing lines, time‐delayed guideposts, and other tricks used by developing pharyngeal neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans Contributor: Pilon, Marc imprint: Wiley, 2008 Published in: Developmental Dynamics Language: English DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21636 ISSN: 1058-8388; 1097-0177 Keywords: Developmental Biology Origination: Footnote: Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The 20 neurons that innervate the <jats:italic>Caenorhabditis elegans</jats:italic> pharynx form a simple nervous system that develops and operates in near complete isolation from the rest of the worm body and, therefore, offers a manageable degree of complexity for developmental genetics studies. This review discusses the progress that has been made in determining the mechanisms by which 4 of the 20 pharyngeal neurons develop, and emphasizes surprising processes that add to the classic growth cone guidance model which is usually thought to explain how most axons establish their trajectories. Developmental Dynamics 237:2073–2080, 2008. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.</jats:p> Access State: Open Access