The terminal selector-type transcription factor UNC-3/Ebf partially modifies the suite of its target genes at different life stages to establish and maintain the identity of C. elegans motor neurons.

Transcription factors that specify the identity of individual neuron types via activating terminal differentiation gene batteries also restrict cellular plasticity via altering the chromatin landscape.

Circuit transcription factors may define the differentiation and assembly of distinct neurons into functional circuitry.

Neuron type-specific gene batteries share cis-regulatory motifs.

Genetic studies in mice identify the transcription factor MafB as a potent regulator of specific features of the synapses underlying hearing.

Cells in the tracheal systems of fruit fly larvae are organised into compartments with precisely located boundaries, which pattern the formation of branched tubular networks.

Neuronal diversity is expanded by a temporal fating paradigm utilizing hierarchical gene regulation.

Genetic analysis reveals the mechanistic basis of motor neuron subclass specification in Caenorhabditis elegans.

A molecular mechanism that involves highly conserved transcription factors enables cholinergic motor neurons of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to become and remain functional.

Genetic analysis reveals the molecular logic of specifying and maintaining the enteric nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.