The evolutionary diversity of insect retinal mosaics: Common design principles and emerging molecular logic

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 316-328

  Wernet, Mathias F ^a   Perry, Michael W ^b   Desplan, Claude ^a,b  

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

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Insect retina; Ommatidia; Patterning; Regionalization; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COMPOUND EYE; DRAGONFLY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HONEYBEE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA PIGMENT CELL; RETINA ROD; RETINAL MOSAICS; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; METABOLISM; MOSAICISM; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

INSECT PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOSAICISM; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; RETINA; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 84930476230     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 13624555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2015.04.006     Document Type: Review

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