Retraction: Pereanu, W., Younossi-Hartenstein, A., Lovick, J., Spindler, S. and Hartenstein, V. (2011), Lineage-based analysis of the development of the central complex of the drosophila brain. J. Comp. Neurol., 519: 661–689. doi:10.1002/cne.22542

Retraction: The following article from Journal of Comparative Neurology 519: 661–689, 2011 “Lineage-based analysis of the development of the central complex of the drosophila brain” by W. Pereanu, A. Younossi-Hartenstein, J. Lovick, S. Spindler, and V. Hartenstein, published online on January 18, 2011 in Wiley Online Library (onlinelibrary.wiley.com(, has been retracted at the request of Howard Hughes Medical Institute after an investigation into data and figures supplied by Dr. Pereanu for the article.