title: Establishing and maintaining gene expression patterns: insights from sensory receptor patterning.
abstract: In visual and olfactory sensory systems with high discriminatory power, each sensory neuron typically expresses one, or very few, sensory receptor genes, excluding all others. Recent studies have provided insights into the mechanisms that generate and maintain sensory receptor expression patterns. Here, we review how this is achieved in the fly retina and compare it with the mechanisms controlling sensory receptor expression patterns in the mouse retina and in the mouse and fly olfactory systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, New York University, 1009 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003-6688,  USA.
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rister
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Desplan
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vasiliauskas
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D054910:Compound Eye, Arthropod / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D004330:Drosophila / Q000166:cytology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D051379:Mice; D009831:Olfactory Mucosa / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D020419:Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D012160:Retina / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D012243:Rhodopsin / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017299:Rod Opsins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011984:Sensory Receptor Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins; C523885:Rh5 protein, Drosophila; C105578:Rh6 protein, Drosophila; D017299:Rod Opsins; C095854:middle-wavelength opsin; C095853:short-wavelength opsin; D012243:Rhodopsin