Temporal patterning of Drosophila medulla neuroblasts controls neural fates

Temporal patterning of Drosophila medulla neuroblasts controls neural fates:
Temporal patterning of Drosophila medulla neuroblasts controls neural fates

Nature 498, 7455 (2013). doi:10.1038/nature12319

Authors: Xin Li, Ted Erclik, Claire Bertet, Zhenqing Chen, Roumen Voutev, Srinidhi Venkatesh, Javier Morante, Arzu Celik & Claude Desplan
In the Drosophila optic lobes, the medulla processes visual information coming from inner photoreceptors R7 and R8 and from lamina neurons. It contains approximately 40,000 neurons belonging to more than 70 different types. Here we describe how precise temporal patterning of neural progenitors generates