title: Dying to entrain: regulating ipRGC spacing.
abstract: In a recent issue of Neuron, Chen et al. (2013) show that apoptosis is required to ensure the even distribution of a class of retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), which sense luminance both intrinsically and through input from rods and cones. Disrupting apoptosis impairs photoentrainment mediated by rods/cones, but not that mediated by ipRGC-expressed melanopsin.
authors: Center for Developmental Genetics, New York University, 1009 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003, USA.
authors: Filipe
authors: F
authors: Pinto-Teixeira
authors: Claude
authors: C
authors: Desplan