Retinal morphogenesis in Drosophila: hints from an eye-specific decapentaplegic allele.

doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1997)20:3<197::AID-DVG3>3.0.CO;2-2

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Retinal morphogenesis in Drosophila: hints from an eye-specific decapentaplegic allele.

Developmental genetics - 1 Jan 1997

Chanut F, Heberlein U

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Decapentaplegic (dpp) regulates many aspects of imaginal disc growth and patterning in Drosophila. We have analyzed the phenotype of an eye-specific dpp allele, dppblk, which causes a reduction in the size of the retina due to a loss of ventral ommatidia. Prior to the onset of differentiation, dp...

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Animals
Drosophila
Drosophila Proteins
Insect Proteins
Morphogenesis
Mutation
Phenotype
Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate
Retina

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