yellow ommatidium FBbt_02000001
yellow ommatidium
ID: FBbt_02000001
Adult Nervous system Sense organ Visual system
Ommatidial subtype with stochastic distribution throughout the retina making up about 70% of all non-dorsal margin ommatidia. This ommatidial subtype is specialized to detect longer wavelengths (far UV + green). (Wernet and Desplan, 2004)
The yellow ommatidium expresses the far ultraviolet-specific opsin Rh4 (FBgn0003250) in photoreceptor R7 cells and the green-sensitive Rh6 (FBgn0019940) in photoreceptor R8 cells (Wernet and Desplan, 2004.
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