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Figure 1 Anatomy of the egg-laying circuit. The HSNL axon travels ventrally and then anteriorly around the vulval, making en passant synapses with VC4,5 and vulval muscle near the guidepost vulval epithelial cells. Anterior ectopic synaptic vesicle clusters form in syg-1 and syg-2 mutant animals.