Otd/Crx, a dual regulator for the specification of ommatidia subtypes in the Drosophila retina

Developmental Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 391-402

  Tahayato, Ali ^a,b   Sonneville, Remi ^a,c   Pichaud, Franck ^a,d   Wernet, Mathias F ^a   Papatsenko, Dmitri ^a   Beaufils, Philippe ^a   Cook, Tiffany ^a   Desplan, Claude ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SENSORY RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LENS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0043198381     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(03)00239-9     Document Type: Article

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