Stochastic spineless expression creates the retinal mosaic for colour vision

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7081, 2006, Pages 174-180

  Wernet, Mathias F ^a,c   Mazzoni, Esteban O ^a   Çelik, Arzu ^a   Duncan, Dianne M ^b   Duncan, Ian ^b   Desplan, Claude ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES;

DROSOPHILA COLOR VISION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINA;

COLOR VISION;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN SPINELESS; RHODOPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

VISION;

ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; COLOR VISION; DROSOPHILA; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA; RETINA CONE;

EID: 33644856456     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04615     Document Type: Article

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