Enlightening the brain: Linking deep brain photoreception with behavior and physiology

Identification of Nonvisual Photomotor Response Cells in the Vertebrate Hindbrain

(2013) D. Kokel et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A direct and melanopsin-dependent fetal light response regulates mouse eye development

(2013) Sujata Rao et al.   NATURE

Monoaminergic modulation of photoreception in ascidian: evidence for a proto-hypothalamo-retinal territory

(2012) Florian Razy-Krajka et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Deep Brain Photoreceptors Control Light-Seeking Behavior in Zebrafish Larvae

(2012) António M. Fernandes et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Encephalopsin (OPN3) protein abundance in the adult mouse brain

(2012) Juuso Nissilä et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Aberrant light directly impairs mood and learning through melanopsin-expressing neurons

(2012) Tara A. LeGates et al.   NATURE

Melanopsin signalling in mammalian iris and retina

(2011) T. Xue et al.   NATURE

Comprehensive catecholaminergic projectome analysis reveals single-neuron integration of zebrafish ascending and descending dopaminergic systems

(2011) Tuan Leng Tay et al.   Nature Communications

A Blind Circadian Clock in Cavefish Reveals that Opsins Mediate Peripheral Clock Photoreception

(2011) Nicola Cavallari et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Nocturnal Bottleneck and the Evolution of Mammalian Vision

(2010) Christopher P. Heesy et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Light-induced body color change in developing zebrafish

(2010) Tomoya Shiraki et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Melanopsin-dependent light avoidance in neonatal mice

(2010) J. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pineal-specific agouti protein regulates teleost background adaptation

(2010) C. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Zebrafish diencephalic A11-related dopaminergic neurons share a conserved transcriptional network with neuroendocrine cell lineages

(2009) H. Lohr et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The evolution of irradiance detection: melanopsin and the non-visual opsins

(2009) S. N. Peirson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A missense variant (P10L) of the melanopsin (OPN4) gene in seasonal affective disorder

(2008) Kathryn A. Roecklein et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Illumination controls differentiation of dopamine neurons regulating behaviour

(2008) Davide Dulcis et al.   NATURE

Intraretinal signaling by ganglion cell photoreceptors to dopaminergic amacrine neurons

(2008) D.-Q. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA