Single opsin driven white noise ERGs in mice
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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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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Unconventional Roles of Opsins [PDF]
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, 2017 Rhodopsin is the classical light sensor. Although rhodopsin has long been known to be important for image formation in the eye, the requirements for opsins in non–image formation and in extraocular light sensation were revealed much later. Most recent is the demonstration that an opsin in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is expressed in ...
Leung, Nicole Y, Montell, Craig
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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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Evolutionary ecology of opsin gene sequence, expression and repertoire. [PDF]
, 2017 Linking molecular evolution to biological function is a long-standing challenge in evolutionary biology. Some of the best examples of this involve opsins, the genes that encode the molecular basis of light reception.
Owens, Gregory L, Rennison, Diana J
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BMC Biology, 2018 Background Animal opsins are light-sensitive G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that enable optogenetic control over the major heterotrimeric G-protein signaling pathways in animal cells.
Edward R. Ballister +3 more
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Retinal cone photoreceptors of the deer mouse Peromyscus maniculatus : development, topography, opsin expression and spectral tuning [PDF]
, 2013 A quantitative analysis of photoreceptor properties was performed in the retina of the nocturnal deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus, using pigmented (wildtype) and albino animals.
Arbogast, Patrick +2 more
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Bat eyes have ultraviolet-sensitive cone photoreceptors. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Mammalian retinae have rod photoreceptors for night vision and cone photoreceptors for daylight and colour vision. For colour discrimination, most mammals possess two cone populations with two visual pigments (opsins) that have absorption maxima at short
Brigitte Müller +5 more
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