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Senseless is required for pupal retinal development in Drosophila.
Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) - 1 Apr 2004
Frankfort Benjamin J, Pepple Kathryn L, Mamlouk Mark, Rose Matthew F, Mardon Graeme
Abstract excerpt
Drosophila sensory organs are specified by a family of proneural genes which induce the expression of several common targets. One such target is senseless, which encodes a zinc finger transcription factor. We analyzed the function of senseless during pupal retinal development and found that senseless is required for recruitment of both cone and pigment cells, the pupal-derived ommatidial support cells. We also...
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