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Stochastic spineless expression creates the retinal mosaic for colour vision.

Nature - 9 Mar 2006

Wernet Mathias F, Mazzoni Esteban O, Çelik Arzu, Duncan Dianne M, Duncan Ian, Desplan Claude

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Drosophila colour vision is achieved by R7 and R8 photoreceptor cells present in every ommatidium. The fly retina contains two types of ommatidia, called 'pale' and 'yellow', defined by different rhodopsin pairs expressed in R7 and R8 cells. Similar to the human cone photoreceptors, these ommatidial subtypes are distributed stochastically in the retina. The choice between pale versus yellow ommatidia is made in...

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PMID: 16525464
DOI: 10.1038/nature04615
PMCID: PMC3826883

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