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Atonal is the proneural gene for Drosophila photoreceptors.
Nature - 2 Jun 1994
Jarman A P, Grell E H, Ackerman L, Jan L Y, Jan Y N
Abstract excerpt
The Drosophila peripheral nervous system comprises four major types of sensory element: external sense organs (such as mechano-sensory bristles), chordotonal organs (internal stretch receptors), multiple dendritic neurons, and photoreceptors. During development, the selection of neural precursors for external sense organs requires the proneural genes of the achaete-scute complex, which encode...
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