Molecular logic behind the three-way stochastic choices that expand butterfly colour vision

Michael Perry, Michiyo Kinoshita, Giuseppe Saldi, Lucy Huo, Kentaro Arikawa and Claude Desplan ()
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Michael Perry: New York University
Michiyo Kinoshita: Laboratory of Neuroethology, SOKENDAI, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Giuseppe Saldi: New York University Abu Dhabi
Lucy Huo: New York University
Kentaro Arikawa: Laboratory of Neuroethology, SOKENDAI, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Claude Desplan: New York University

Nature, 2016, vol. 535, issue 7611, 280-284

Abstract: Butterflies diversify their retinal mosaics by producing three stochastic types of ommatidia instead of the two types found in Drosophila; this study shows that butterfly retinas use two R7-like photoreceptors per ommatidium that each make an independent stochastic decision to express the transcription factor Spineless, which controls photoreceptor and ommatidial fate.

Date: 2016
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