Patterning of the R7 and R8 photoreceptor cells of Drosophila: Evidence for induced and default cell-fate specification

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 607-616

  Chou, Wen Hai ^a   Huber, Armin ^b   Bentrop, Joachim ^b   Schulz, Simone ^b   Schwab, Karin ^b   Chadwell, Linda V ^a   Paulsen, Reinhard ^b   Britt, Steven G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell patterning; Cell fate determination; Drosophila melanogaster; Opsin; Photoreceptor; Retina; Rhodopsin

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL MUTANT; CELL SPECIFICITY; COMPOUND EYE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OPSIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033006701     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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