Insects, 2023 Expanding on previous efforts to survey the visual opsin repertoires of the Hemiptera, this study confirms that homologs of the UV- and LW-opsin subfamilies are conserved in all Hemiptera, while the B-opsin subfamily is missing from the Heteroptera and ...
Markus Friedrich
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Nano-Enhanced Optical Delivery of Multi-Characteristic Opsin Gene for Spinal Optogenetic Modulation of Pain [PDF]
BioengineeringOptogenetic modulation employs light-sensitive proteins known as opsins to regulate cellular activity. A unique therapeutic application of this technique involves modulating pain perception by selectively targeting neural pathways within the spinal cord.
Darryl Narcisse +3 more
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Single opsin driven white noise ERGs in mice [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 PurposeElectroretinograms elicited by photopigment isolating white noise stimuli (wnERGs) in mice were measured. The dependency of rod- and cone-opsin-driven wnERGs on mean luminance was studied.MethodsTemporal white noise stimuli (containing all ...
Nina Stallwitz +4 more
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Cone Opsins and Inherited Retinal Disease [PDF]
CellsOpsins are the light receptors in retinal rod and cone photoreceptor cells that initiate vision in response to a light stimulus. Rhodopsin is the opsin in rods, and the influence of mutations that disrupt its structure and function has been characterized
Maya Tang, Paul S.-H. Park
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Gene expression patterns of novel visual and non-visual opsin families in immature and mature Japanese eel males [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 This study was carried out to identify and estimate physiological function of a new type of opsin subfamily present in the retina and whole brain tissues of Japanese eel using RNA–Seq transcriptome method.
Jun-Hwan Byun +9 more
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Evolution and expression plasticity of opsin genes in a fig pollinator, Ceratosolen solmsi. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Figs and fig pollinators have co-evolved species-specific systems of mutualism. So far, it was unknown how visual opsin genes of pollinators have evolved in the light conditions inside their host figs.
Bo Wang +5 more
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An EvoDevo Study of Salmonid Visual Opsin Dynamics and Photopigment Spectral Sensitivity
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2022 Salmonids are ideal models as many species follow a distinct developmental program from demersal eggs and a large yolk sac to hatching at an advanced developmental stage. Further, these economically important teleosts inhabit both marine- and freshwaters
Mariann Eilertsen +12 more
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Modeling binary and graded cone cell fate patterning in the mouse retina.
PLoS Computational Biology, 2020 Nervous systems are incredibly diverse, with myriad neuronal subtypes defined by gene expression. How binary and graded fate characteristics are patterned across tissues is poorly understood.
Kiara C Eldred +3 more
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The expression of three opsin genes from the compound eye of Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is regulated by a circadian clock, light conditions and nutritional status. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Visual genes may become inactive in species that inhabit poor light environments, and the function and regulation of opsin components in nocturnal moths are interesting topics.
Shuo Yan +6 more
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A fish eye out of water: ten visual opsins in the four-eyed fish, Anableps anableps. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 The "four-eyed" fish Anableps anableps has numerous morphological adaptations that enable above and below-water vision. Here, as the first step in our efforts to identify molecular adaptations for aerial and aquatic vision in this species, we describe ...
Gregory L Owens +3 more
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