Diverse Distributions of Extraocular Opsins in Crustaceans, Cephalopods, and Fish

Re-evaluating the Role of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells: New Roles in Image-Forming Functions

(2016) Takuma Sonoda et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

A Spinal Opsin Controls Early Neural Activity and Drives a Behavioral Light Response

(2015) Drew Friedmann et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

An extended family of novel vertebrate photopigments is widely expressed and displays a diversity of function

(2015) Wayne I.L. Davies et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Short- and long-wavelength-sensitive opsins are involved in photoreception both in the retina and throughout the central nervous system of crayfish

(2015) Alexandra C. N. Kingston et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Light sensitivity in a vertebrate mechanoreceptor?

(2015) G. E. Baker et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Visual phototransduction components in cephalopod chromatophores suggest dermal photoreception

(2015) A. C. N. Kingston et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Eye-independent, light-activated chromatophore expansion (LACE) and expression of phototransduction genes in the skin of Octopus bimaculoides

(2015) M. D. Ramirez et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Biodiversity on the Rocks: Macrofauna Inhabiting Authigenic Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps

(2015) Lisa A. Levin et al.   PLoS One

Exorhodopsin and melanopsin systems in the pineal complex and brain at early developmental stages of Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus)

(2014) Mariann Eilertsen et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Ancestral duplications and highly dynamic opsin gene evolution in percomorph fishes

(2014) Fabio Cortesi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Possible Involvement of Cone Opsins in Distinct Photoresponses of Intrinsically Photosensitive Dermal Chromatophores in Tilapia Oreochromis niloticus

(2013) Shyh-Chi Chen et al.   PLoS One

Eye evolution and its functional basis

(2013) DAN-E. NILSSON   VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE

Isolation and characterization of melanopsin photoreceptors of atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

(2012) Mari Sandbakken et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Encephalic photoreception and phototactic response in the troglobiont Somalian blind cavefish Phreatichthys andruzzii

(2012) E. E. Tarttelin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Depth Perception from Image Defocus in a Jumping Spider

(2012) T. Nagata et al.   SCIENCE

Functional diversity of melanopsins and their global expression in the teleost retina

(2011) Wayne I. L. Davies et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Photoreceptors: Unconventional Ways of Seeing

(2011) Naryttza N. Diaz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Melanopsin-Positive Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells: From Form to Function

(2011) T. M. Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Unexpected Diversity and Photoperiod Dependence of the Zebrafish Melanopsin System

(2011) Vanessa Matos-Cruz et al.   PLoS One

Shedding new light on opsin evolution

(2011) M. L. Porter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evidence for distributed light sensing in the skin of cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis

(2010) L. M. Mathger et al.   Biology Letters

Vertebrate ancient opsin and melanopsin: divergent irradiance detectors

(2010) Wayne L. Davies et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Differential Expression of Two Distinct Functional Isoforms of Melanopsin (Opn4) in the Mammalian Retina

(2009) S. S. Pires et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Evidence for light perception in a bioluminescent organ

(2009) D. Tong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The role of dermal photoreceptors during the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) spawning migration

(2008) Thomas R. Binder et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Melanopsin Ganglion Cells Use a Membrane-Associated Rhabdomeric Phototransduction Cascade

(2008) Dustin M. Graham et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Differential expression of duplicated VAL-opsin genes in the developing zebrafish

(2007) Daisuke Kojima et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

Immunostaining of peripheral nerves and other tissues in whole mount preparations from hatchling cephalopods

(2007) G.O. Mackie   TISSUE & CELL

Melanopsin: an exciting photopigment

(2007) Mark W. Hankins et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES