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Christine Swanson, Graduate Student, Cell and Developmental Biology and Scott Barolo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
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| Although humans and insects have very different types of eyes, they use many of the same genes in eye development. Fruit flies have compound eyes made up of repeated simple units, each containing eight photoreceptor cells, which capture light and send visual information to the brain. Pictured here is part of a developing retina of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, with each cluster of eight photoreceptors labeled by an antibody that identifies neurons (green). This fly was genetically modified, such that a jellyfish protein (pink) is produced by two photoreceptors in each cluster. |
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