Eye development: Notch lends a handedness
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The arrangement of photoreceptors in the ommatidia of the Drosophila compound eye is polarized, having a handedness or chirality. Notch signalling helps determine this handedness, first by establishing a signalling center at the eye equator, and second by mediating a choice between two photoreceptor fates
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999