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Filipe Pinto-Teixeira1, Claude Desplan
1Center for Developmental Genetics, New York University, 1009 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Developmental Cell
|March 2, 2013
Abstract:
In a recent issue of Neuron, Chen et al. (2013) show that apoptosis is required to ensure the even distribution of a class of retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), which sense luminance both intrinsically and through input from rods and cones. Disrupting apoptosis impairs photoentrainment mediated by rods/cones, but not that mediated by ipRGC-expressed melanopsin.

