Neural Regeneration Research ›› 2022, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (2): 341-343.doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.317980

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A Drosophila perspective on retina functions and dysfunctions

Elisabetta Catalani, Federica Silvestri, Davide Cervia*   

  1. Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems (DIBAF), Università degli Studi della Tuscia, largo dell’Università snc, Viterbo, Italy
  • Online:2022-02-15 Published:2021-10-08
  • Contact: Davide Cervia, PhD, d.cervia@unitus.it.
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by grants from “Departments of Excellence-2018” Program (Dipartimenti di Eccellenza) to DIBAF (University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy) (Project “Landscape 4.0 - food, wellbeing and environment”) (to DC). 

Abstract: Due to the high degree of conservation of genes and mechanisms, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a powerful experimental in vivo tool to investigate complex diseases, thus complementing traditional vertebrate systems. Drosophila is also an advantageous system regarding the animal husbandry and the short generation time and lifespan. The growing interest in flies includes the establishment of easily manageable models to study visual degeneration which occur in humans (Gaspar et al., 2019).