Screen for genetic modifiers of stbm reveals that photoreceptor fate and rotation can be genetically uncoupled in the Drosophila eye.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000453

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Screen for genetic modifiers of stbm reveals that photoreceptor fate and rotation can be genetically uncoupled in the Drosophila eye.

PloS one - 16 May 2007

Wolff Tanya, Guinto Jake B, Rawls Amy S

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BACKGROUND: Polarity of the Drosophila compound eye arises primarily as a consequence of two events that are tightly linked in time and space: fate specification of two photoreceptor cells, R3 and R4, and the subsequent directional movement of the unit eyes of the compound eye, or ommatidia. While it is thought that these fates dictate the direction of ommatidial rotation, the phenotype of mutants in the genes...

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Animals
Cell Lineage
Drosophila
Drosophila Proteins
Eye
Membrane Proteins
Phenotype
Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate

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PMID: 17505545
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000453
PMCID: PMC1866179

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