When neurobiology and genetics meet: the study of visual system development in Drosophila melanogaster

Ramos, R.G.

Revista Brasileira de Biologia 55(Suppl): 11-24

1995


ISSN/ISBN: 0034-7108
PMID: 8729270
Document Number: 449743
The visual system of Drosophila melanogaster is an exceptionally well suited model to study the molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying inter- and intracellular signalling during nervous system development. This review highlights some of the recent advances in this field, that show not only the power of the combined neurobiological and genetical approaches in shedding new light into long standing questions regarding nervous system development but also uncover a striking evolutionary conservation, at the molecular level, of the basic developmental pathways and signal transduction cascades underlying metazoan ontogenesis.

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