Multiple roles of the eyes absent gene in Drosophila.

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The eyes absent (eya) gene plays an essential role in the events that lead to formation of the Drosophila eye; without expression of eya in retinal progenitor cells, they undergo programmed cell death just prior to the morphogenetic furrow, leading to an eyeless or reduced eye phenotype. The eya gene has recently been found to be highly conserved to humans, defining a new gene family. Insights into the gene's...

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