Regional modulation of a stochastically expressed factor determines photoreceptor subtypes in the drosophila retina

Developmental Cell

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-105

  Thanawala, Shivani U ^a   Rister, Jens ^a   Goldberg, Gregory W ^a,e   Zuskov, Andrey ^a   Olesnicky, Eugenia C ^b,c   Flowers, Jonathan M ^a,d   Jukam, David ^a   Purugganan, Michael D ^a,d   Gavis, Elizabeth R ^b   Desplan, Claude ^a,d   Johnston, Robert J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RHODOPSIN4; RHODOPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SPINELESS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PROTEINS AND PIGMENTS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA; STATISTICS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR NUCLEAR TRANSLOCATOR; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; RETINA; RHODOPSIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84876371969     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2013.02.016     Document Type: Article

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