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Targeted misexpression of a Drosophila opsin gene leads to altered visual function

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Drosophila mutants transformed with a chimaeric gene that expresses the ocellar visual pigment in the major class of photoreceptor cells of the retina were used to investigate the properties of this minor pigment. The photoreceptor cells in which this opsin was misexpressed showed new spectral characteristics and physiology.

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  1. William A. Harris and Charles S. Zuker: Department of Biology and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA

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    Reinhard Feiler, William A. Harris, Kuno Kirschfeld, Christian Wehrhahn & Charles S. Zuker

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Feiler, R., Harris, W., Kirschfeld, K. et al. Targeted misexpression of a Drosophila opsin gene leads to altered visual function. Nature 333, 737–741 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/333737a0

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