Stochastic de-repression of rhodopsins in single photoreceptors of the fly retina

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Sood, Pranidhi ^a   Johnston, Robert J ^a   Kussell, Edo ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR VISION; GENE EXPRESSION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CELL-FATE; CLASSICAL MODELING; COMPOUND EYE; DE-REPRESSION; DROSOPHILLA; EXPRESSION LEVELS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOTION DETECTION; STOCHASTICS; WILD TYPES;

CYTOLOGY;

DVE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DEFECTIVE PROVENTRICULUS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; SENSORY RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; SENSORY RHODOPSINS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84861120148     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002357     Document Type: Article

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