Eye development: random precision in color vision.
In insect and vertebrate eyes, different types of color-detecting photoreceptors are randomly distributed throughout the retina. A recent study has provided important new insights into the developmental mechanisms that generate the retinal mosaic required for color vision.
Hummel
Thomas
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Institut für Neuro- und Verhaltensbiologie, Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany. hummel@uni-muenster.de
Klämbt
Christian
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D000818:Animals; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology; D004330:Drosophila / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000502:physiology; D005123:Eye / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development; D017956:Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate