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SUBMITTER: Wernet MF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3826883 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wernet Mathias F MF Mazzoni Esteban O EO Çelik Arzu A Duncan Dianne M DM Duncan Ian I Desplan Claude C
Nature 20060301 7081
Drosophila colour vision is achieved by R7 and R8 photoreceptor cells present in every ommatidium. The fly retina contains two types of ommatidia, called 'pale' and 'yellow', defined by different rhodopsin pairs expressed in R7 and R8 cells. Similar to the human cone photoreceptors, these ommatidial subtypes are distributed stochastically in the retina. The choice between pale versus yellow ommatidia is made in R7 cells, which then impose their fate onto R8. Here we report that the Drosophila di ...[more]