Identification of a novel Drosophila opsin reveals specific patterning of the R7 and R8 photoreceptor cells.

doi:10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80243-3

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Identification of a novel Drosophila opsin reveals specific patterning of the R7 and R8 photoreceptor cells.

Neuron - 1 Dec 1996

Chou W H, Hall K J, Wilson D B, Wideman C L, Townson S M, Chadwell L V, Britt S G

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The function of the compound eye is dependent upon a developmental program that specifies different cell fates and directs the expression of spectrally distinct opsins in different photoreceptor cells. Rh5 is a novel Drosophila opsin gene that encodes a biologically active visual pigment that is...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
Cloning, Molecular
Drosophila
Genes
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Rod Opsins
Tissue Distribution

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