Article
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...
Topics
- Animals
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Drosophila
- Drosophila Proteins
- Embryonic Induction
- Eye
- Mutation
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
- Phenotype
- Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate