Rhodopsin patterning in central photoreceptor cells of the blowfly Calliphora vicina: cloning and characterization of Calliphora rhodopsins Rh3, Rh5 and Rh6

@article{Schmitt2005RhodopsinPI,
  title={Rhodopsin patterning in central photoreceptor cells of the blowfly Calliphora vicina: cloning and characterization of Calliphora rhodopsins Rh3, Rh5 and Rh6},
  author={Angelika Schmitt and Andreas Vogt and Katrin Friedmann and Reinhard Paulsen and Armin Huber},
  journal={Journal of Experimental Biology},
  year={2005},
  volume={208},
  pages={1247 - 1256}
}
SUMMARY The ommatidia that constitute the compound eyes of flies contain eight photoreceptor cells, which are divided into two classes: the peripheral photoreceptors, R1–6, and the central photoreceptors, R7 and R8. In the fruit fly, Drosophila, R1–6 express the same rhodopsin (Rh1), whilst the R7 and R8 of a given ommatidium express either Rh3 and Rh5, or Rh4 and Rh6, respectively. We have studied whether this expression pattern of rhodopsins is conserved in the blowfly Calliphora vicina. We… 
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