Everything about R8

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: R8A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: α-Conotoxin RgIA and oligoarginine R8 in the mice model alleviate long-term oxaliplatin induced neuropathyInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Nineteen Eighty-FourThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Blue- and Green-Absorbing Visual Pigments of Drosophila : Ectopic Expression and Physiological Characterization of the R8 Photoreceptor Cell-Specific Rh5 and Rh6 RhodopsinsCited 238 times
5. Go sideways: R3A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: R6A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Blue- and Green-Absorbing Visual Pigments of Drosophila : Ectopic Expression and Physiological Characterization of the R8 Photoreceptor Cell-Specific Rh5 and Rh6 Rhodopsins

  Ernesto Salcedo, Armin Huber, Stefan Henrich · 1999 · The Journal of Neuroscience · 238 citations

• Cell-cell interaction in the drosophila retina: The bride of sevenless gene is required in photoreceptor cell R8 for R7 cell development

  Rosemary Reinke, S.Lawrence Zipursky · 1988 · Cell · 183 citations

• Identification of a Novel Drosophila Opsin Reveals Specific Patterning of the R7 and R8 Photoreceptor Cells

  Wen-Hai Chou, Kristin J Hall, D.Bianca Wilson · 1996 · Neuron · 172 citations

• The Growth Regulators warts/lats and melted Interact in a Bistable Loop to Specify Opposite Fates in Drosophila R8 Photoreceptors

  Tamara Mikeladze-Dvali, Mathias F. Wernet, Daniela Pistillo · 2005 · Cell · 160 citations

• Patterning of the R7 and R8 photoreceptor cells of Drosophila : evidence for induced and default cell-fate specification

  Wen-Hai Chou, Armin Huber, Joachim Bentrop · 1999 · Development · 144 citations

• A new rhodopsin in R8 photoreceptors of Drosophila: evidence for coordinate expression with Rh3 in R7 cells

  Dmitri Papatsenko, Guojun Sheng, Claude Desplan · 1997 · Development · 129 citations

• Flamingo Regulates R8 Axon-Axon and Axon-Target Interactions in the Drosophila Visual System

  Kirsten-André Senti, Tadao Usui, Karin Boucke · 2003 · Current Biology · 119 citations

• senseless Repression of rough Is Required for R8 Photoreceptor Differentiation in the Developing Drosophila Eye

  Benjamin J. Frankfort, Riitta Nolo, Zhihuan Zhang · 2001 · Neuron · 118 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• α-Conotoxin RgIA and oligoarginine R8 in the mice model alleviate long-term oxaliplatin induced neuropathy

  I.A. Dyachenko, Yu A. Palikova, V.A. Palikov · 2022 · Biochimie · 20 citations

• Sheep-derived butyrate-producing Clostridium beijerinckii R8 alleviates diarrhea by shaping the gut microbiota of goat kids

  Dingkun Fan, Yuze Fu, Jixian Zhang · 2024 · Animal Nutrition · 18 citations

• TRIM32 biallelic defects cause limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R8: identification of two novel mutations and investigation of genotype–phenotype correlation

  Yuqing Guan, Xiongda Liang, Wei Li · 2023 · Skeletal Muscle · 17 citations

• Late Blight Resistance Conferred by Rpi-Smira2/R8 in Potato Genotypes In Vitro Depends on the Genetic Background

  Eva Blatnik, Marinka Horvat, Sabina Berne · 2022 · Plants · 12 citations

• The endophytic bacterium Bacillus subtilis R8 as a prospective biocontrol agent for managing tea blister blight and enhancing tea yield

  Quang Trung Do · 2025 · BioControl · 10 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell · 1949
• Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury · 1953
• Poems (Lover's Complaint / Passionate Pilgrim / Phoenix and the Turtle / Rape of Lucrece / Sonnets / Venus and Adonis)William Shakespeare · 1771
• Burmese DaysGeorge Orwell · 1934
• A Raisin in the SunLorraine Hansberry · 1958
• Being MortalAtul Gawande · 2014
• Aurora LeighElizabeth Barrett Browning · 1850
• StiffMary Roach, M Roach · 2003

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