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Retinal Expression of the Drosophila eyes absent Gene Is Controlled by Several Cooperatively Acting Cis-regulatory Elements.
PLoS genetics - 1 Dec 2016
Weasner Bonnie M, Weasner Brandon P, Neuman Sarah D, Bashirullah Arash, Kumar Justin P
Abstract excerpt
The eyes absent (eya) gene of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is a member of an evolutionarily conserved gene regulatory network that controls eye formation in all seeing animals. The loss of eya leads to the complete elimination of the compound eye while forced expression of eya in non-retinal tissues is sufficient to induce ectopic eye formation. Within the developing retina eya is expressed in a...
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