Flipping Coins in the Fly Retina

Tamara Mikeladze-Dvali; Claude Desplan; Daniela Pistillo

doi:10.1016/S0070-2153(05)69001-1

Flipping Coins in the Fly Retina

Tamara Mikeladze-Dvali, Claude Desplan, Daniela Pistillo

Istituto Clinico Humanitas

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Neural Development
Pages	1-15
Number of pages	15
Volume	69
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0070-2153(05)69001-1
Publication status	Published - 2005

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Name	Current Topics in Developmental Biology
Volume	69
ISSN (Print)	00702153

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Mikeladze-Dvali, T., Desplan, C., & Pistillo, D. (2005). Flipping Coins in the Fly Retina. In Neural Development (Vol. 69, pp. 1-15). (Current Topics in Developmental Biology; Vol. 69). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0070-2153(05)69001-1

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