Drosophila photoreceptors and signaling mechanisms

Fly eyes have been a useful biological system in which fundamental principles of sensory signaling have been elucidated. The physiological optics of the fly compound eye, which was discovered in the Musca, Calliphora and Drosophila flies, has been widely exploited in pioneering genetic and developme...

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Main Authors: Ben Katz, Baruch Minke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2009-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.03.002.2009/full