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Neuronal development in the Drosophila compound eye: photoreceptor cells R1, R6, and R7 fail to differentiate in the retina aberrant in pattern (rap) mutant.
Journal of neurobiology - 1 Oct 1996
Karpilow J M, Pimentel A C, Shamloula H K, Venkatesh T R
Abstract excerpt
The compound eye of Drosophila is a reiterated pattern of 800 unit eyes known as ommatidia. In each ommatidium there are eight photoreceptor neurons (R1-R8) and an invariant number of accessory cells organized in a precise manner. In the developing eye, specification of cell fates is triggered by sequential inductive events mediated by cell-cell interactions. The R8 photoreceptor neuron is the first cell to...
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