Generating patterned arrays of photoreceptors

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 314-319

  Morante, Javier ^a   Desplan, Claude ^a   Celik, Arzu ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL SPECIFICITY; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; DROSOPHILA; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHOTORECEPTORS; RETINA;

EID: 34547725214     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2007.05.003     Document Type: Review

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