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Microscopic analysis of the adult Drosophila retina using semithin plastic sections.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2008
Gaengel Konstantin, Mlodzik Marek
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The regular appearance and the repetitive nature of the Drosophila eye, consisting of several hundred identical multicellular units, the ommatidia, has long served as an invaluable experimental system to study cell-cell interactions, inductive signaling events, cell proliferation, programmed cell death, cell differentiation, cell organization, and planar cell polarity among others. Importantly, the eye is...
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