Genetic and developmental mechanisms underlying the formation of the Drosophila compound eye

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-56

  Tsachaki, Maria ^a   Sprecher, Simon G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Compound eye; Eye disc; Morphogenetic furrow; Photoreceptors; Rhodopsins

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; COMPOUND EYE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; OMMATIDIUM; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; IMAGINAL DISCS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 83655201337     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22738     Document Type: Review

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