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A cater-pillar is the larva of a butterfly or moth, coming from the Old French chate pelouse , hairy cat.
When probes were prepared independently from the poly(A) +RNA isolated from left and right wing discs of a third instar larva, only minor differences in the intensities were observed (CC 0.99 and SD 0.14) (Figure 2c).
The amplified RNA (aRNA) from different tissues of single larva was used to perform pairwise comparisons and to identify sets of genes with preferential expression.
CG9335 was expressed in R8 precursor cells that also stained with the neuronal-specific 22C10 antibody in a pattern reminiscent of atonal (data not shown); it was also expressed in the optic lobe, in Bolwig's organ (the light-sensing organ of the larva), and in a subset of neurons in the embryonic and larval central nervous system (CNS; data not shown).
Comparing probes from the wing and eye-antennal discs isolated from the same larva revealed a higher degree of divergence.