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D'Costa, A., Moses, K. (2003). Looking up: regional patterning in the fly eye.  Dev. Cell 5(5): 665--666.
FlyBase ID
FBrf0167475
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Abstract
The Drosophila compound eye includes a dorsal domain specialized for the detection of the plane of polarized light. Two new papers show that this domain is controlled by graded Wingless signals acting through the homeodomain transcription factor Homothorax.
PubMed ID
14602064
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DOI
10.1016/s1534-5807(03)00332-0
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Homothorax switches function of Drosophila photoreceptors from color to polarized light sensors.
Wernet et al., 2003, Cell 115(3): 267--279 [FBrf0167367]

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    Language of Publication
    English
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    Publication Type
    Journal
    Abbreviation
    Dev. Cell
    Title
    Developmental Cell
    Publication Year
    2001-
    ISBN/ISSN
    1534-5807 1878-1551
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