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The growth regulators warts/lats and melted interact in a bistable loop to specify opposite fates in Drosophila R8 photoreceptors.
Cell - 9 Sept 2005
Mikeladze-Dvali Tamara, Wernet Mathias F, Pistillo Daniela, Mazzoni Esteban O, Teleman Aurelio A, Chen Ya-Wen, Cohen Stephen, Desplan Claude
Abstract excerpt
Color vision in Drosophila relies on the comparison between two color-sensitive photoreceptors, R7 and R8. Two types of ommatidia in which R7 and R8 contain different rhodopsins are distributed stochastically in the retina and appear to discriminate short (p-subset) or long wavelengths (y-subset). The choice between p and y fates is made in R7, which then instructs R8 to follow the corresponding fate, thus...
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