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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 12.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Biol. 2005 Sep 28;287(1):157–167. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.08.045

Table 1.

χ2 analysis of the effects of RA on photoreceptor recruitmenta

Rods Red cones Green conesb Blue cones UV cones
Treatment AT-RAc 9-cis RA AT-RA 9-cis RA AT-RA 9-cis RA AT-RA 9-cis RA AT-RA 9-cis RA
P value 0.0012 0.0508 0.0005 0.018 0.089 0.2639 0.0446 0.0253 0.0041 0.0003
a

Analysis was based upon fraction of eyes in each treatment, assigned to each photoreceptor recruitment stage (see Fig. 2).

b

Detected by indirect immunofluorescence for green opsin; all others detected by in situ hybridization for a specific opsin.

c

AT-RA, all-trans retinoic acid.