TY - JOUR
T1 - Flipping Coins in the Fly Retina
AU - Mikeladze-Dvali, Tamara
AU - Desplan, Claude
AU - Pistillo, Daniela
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Color vision in Drosophila melanogaster relies on the presence of two different subtypes of ommatidia: the "green" and "blue." These two classes are distributed randomly throughout the retina. The decision of a given ommatidium to take on the "green" or "blue" fate seems to be based on a stochastic mechanism. Here we compare the stochastic choice of photoreceptors in the fly retina with other known examples of random choices in both sensory and other systems.
AB - Color vision in Drosophila melanogaster relies on the presence of two different subtypes of ommatidia: the "green" and "blue." These two classes are distributed randomly throughout the retina. The decision of a given ommatidium to take on the "green" or "blue" fate seems to be based on a stochastic mechanism. Here we compare the stochastic choice of photoreceptors in the fly retina with other known examples of random choices in both sensory and other systems.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0070-2153(05)69001-1
DO - 10.1016/S0070-2153(05)69001-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 16243594
AN - SCOPUS:33645622496
SN - 0070-2153
VL - 69
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Current Topics in Developmental Biology
JF - Current Topics in Developmental Biology
ER -