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Eye Development in Drosophila : From Photoreceptor Specification to Terminal Differentiation

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This chapter highlights different steps of Drosophila compound eye development starting from early photoreceptor specification in the embryo to the terminal differentiation and determination of photoreceptor subtype specificity. In this chapter, “retinal determination cascade” is briefly described and it also provides details of how crosstalk of retinal determination genes at different levels regulates the eye developmental process. This chapter also highlights “morphogenetic furrow” initiation and progression in the eye-antennal imaginal disc and how that leads to the specification of different photoreceptor subtypes in the compound eye. It also provides details of photoreceptor terminal differentiation and how different ommatidial subtypes are determined and arranged in the compound eye.

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Mishra, A.K., Sprecher, S.G. (2023). Eye Development in Drosophila : From Photoreceptor Specification to Terminal Differentiation. In: Egger, B. (eds) Neurogenetics . Learning Materials in Biosciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07793-7_6

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