Generation of uniform fly retinas

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Wernet, Mathias F ^a   Çelik, Arzu ^a   Mikeladze Dvali, Tamara ^a   Desplan, Claude ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; LETTER; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENTS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 36548999344     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.10.006     Document Type: Letter

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