The visual pigment xenopsin is widespread in protostome eyes and impacts the view on eye evolution

The development of early pioneer neurons in the annelid Malacoceros fuliginosus

(2020) Suman Kumar et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

CRISPR/CAS9 mutagenesis of a single r-opsin gene blocks phototaxis in a marine larva

(2019) S. Neal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Extraocular, rod-like photoreceptors in a flatworm express xenopsin photopigment

(2019) Kate A Rawlinson et al.   eLife

A safer, urea-based in situ hybridization method improves detection of gene expression in diverse animal species

(2018) Chiara Sinigaglia et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Unexpected ultrastructure of an eye in Spiralia: the larval ocelli of Procephalothrix oestrymnicus (Nemertea)

(2018) Jörn von Döhren et al.   ZOOMORPHOLOGY

Ciliary and rhabdomeric photoreceptor-cell circuits form a spectral depth gauge in marine zooplankton

(2018) Csaba Verasztó et al.   eLife

Trafficking of ciliary membrane proteins by the intraflagellar transport/BBSome machinery

(2018) Jenna L. Wingfield et al.   Essays in Biochemistry

A Comparative Perspective on Extra-retinal Photoreception

(2018) Jonathan H. Pérez et al.   TRENDS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Membrane protein trafficking in Drosophila photoreceptor cells

(2017) Krystina Schopf et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

TrackMate: An open and extensible platform for single-particle tracking

(2017) Jean-Yves Tinevez et al.   METHODS

Co-expression of xenopsin and rhabdomeric opsin in photoreceptors bearing microvilli and cilia

(2017) Oliver Vöcking et al.   eLife

The last common ancestor of most bilaterian animals possessed at least 9 opsins

(2016) MD Ramirez et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Spectral Tuning of Phototaxis by a Go-Opsin in the Rhabdomeric Eyes of Platynereis

(2015) Martin Gühmann et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Molecular Evidence for Convergence and Parallelism in Evolution of Complex Brains of Cephalopod Molluscs: Insights from Visual Systems

(2015) M. A. Yoshida et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Spectral sensitivity in Onychophora (velvet worms) revealed by electroretinograms, phototactic behaviour and opsin gene expression

(2015) H. Beckmann et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Variable light environments induce plastic spectral tuning by regional opsin coexpression in the African cichlid fish,Metriaclima zebra

(2015) Brian E. Dalton et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Posterior eyespots in larval chitons have a molecular identity similar to anterior cerebral eyes in other bilaterians

(2015) Oliver Vöcking et al.   EvoDevo

Analysis of the Opsin Repertoire in the Tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini Provides Insights into the Evolution of Opsin Genes in Panarthropoda

(2014) Lars Hering et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

GenePainter: a fast tool for aligning gene structures of eukaryotic protein families, visualizing the alignments and mapping gene structures onto protein structures

(2013) Björn Hammesfahr et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Expression Dynamics and Protein Localization of Rhabdomeric Opsins in Platynereis Larvae

(2013) Nadine Randel et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Coexpression of three opsins in cone photoreceptors of the salamanderAmbystoma tigrinum

(2013) Tomoki Isayama et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Automated Transmission-Mode Scanning Electron Microscopy (tSEM) for Large Volume Analysis at Nanoscale Resolution

(2013) Masaaki Kuwajima et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of phototransduction, vertebrate photoreceptors and retina

(2013) Trevor D. Lamb   PROGRESS IN RETINAL AND EYE RESEARCH

Molecular complexes that direct rhodopsin transport to primary cilia

(2013) Jing Wang et al.   PROGRESS IN RETINAL AND EYE RESEARCH

Elastic volume reconstruction from series of ultra-thin microscopy sections

(2012) Stephan Saalfeld et al.   NATURE METHODS

TrakEM2 Software for Neural Circuit Reconstruction

(2012) Albert Cardona et al.   PLoS One

Molecular analysis of the amphioxus frontal eye unravels the evolutionary origin of the retina and pigment cells of the vertebrate eye

(2012) P. Vopalensky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Transcriptome Analysis of the Planarian Eye Identifies ovo as a Specific Regulator of Eye Regeneration

(2012) Sylvain W. Lapan et al.   Cell Reports

The evolution of vision

(2012) Walter J. Gehring   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology

Ciliary photoreceptors in the cerebral eyes of a protostome larva

(2011) Yale J Passamaneck et al.   EvoDevo

dlx and sp6-9 Control Optic Cup Regeneration in a Prototypic Eye

(2011) Sylvain W. Lapan et al.   PLoS Genetics

Phototransduction and the Evolution of Photoreceptors

(2010) Gordon L. Fain et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Opsin co-expression in Limulus photoreceptors: differential regulation by light and a circadian clock

(2010) C. Katti et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Molecular evidence for color discrimination in the Atlantic sand fiddler crab, Uca pugilator

(2010) P. Rajkumar et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Photoreception and the Polyphyletic Evolution of Photoreceptors (with Special Reference to Mollusca)*

(2009) Luitfried von Salvini-Plawen   AMERICAN MALACOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Deep homology and the origins of evolutionary novelty

(2009) Neil Shubin et al.   NATURE

Evolution of opsins and phototransduction

(2009) Y. Shichida et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Light-transduction in melanopsin-expressing photoreceptors of Amphioxus

(2009) M. del Pilar Gomez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanism of phototaxis in marine zooplankton

(2008) Gáspár Jékely et al.   NATURE

The evolution of cell types in animals: emerging principles from molecular studies

(2008) Detlev Arendt   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS