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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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The Diversity and Adaptive Evolution of Visual Photopigments in Reptiles
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Reptiles are a highly diverse class that consists of snakes, geckos, iguanid lizards, and chameleons among others. Given their unique phylogenetic position in relation to both birds and mammals, reptiles are interesting animal models with which to ...
Christiana Katti +7 more
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Extraocular, rod-like photoreceptors in a flatworm express xenopsin photopigment
eLife, 2019 Animals detect light using opsin photopigments. Xenopsin, a recently classified subtype of opsin, challenges our views on opsin and photoreceptor evolution.
Kate A Rawlinson +14 more
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Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2022 Despite concern over potential retinal damage linked to exposure to light-emitting-diode (LED) light (particularly blue light), it remains unknown how exposure to low-intensity monochromatic LED light affects the expression of rhodopsin (Rho, a ...
Natalia Ziółkowska, Bogdan Lewczuk
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Diversity of color vision: not all Australian marsupials are trichromatic. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Color vision in marsupials has recently emerged as a particularly interesting case among mammals. It appears that there are both dichromats and trichromats among closely related species.
Wiebke Ebeling +2 more
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Melanopsin bistability: a fly's eye technology in the human retina.
PLoS ONE, 2009 In addition to rods and cones, the human retina contains light-sensitive ganglion cells that express melanopsin, a photopigment with signal transduction mechanisms similar to that of invertebrate rhabdomeric photopigments (IRP).
Ludovic S Mure +6 more
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Melanopsin expression in the retinas of owls with different daily activity patterns
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, 2022 Melanopsin is a photopigment found in a subset of retinal ganglion cells that is responsible for generating a series of responses to light in organisms, such as circadian rhythm regulation, pupillary light reflex, and body temperature control.
Maria Júlia Vilani Naman +6 more
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Optical imaging of human cone photoreceptors directly following the capture of light. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Capture of light in the photoreceptor outer segment initiates a cascade of chemical events that inhibit neurotransmitter release, ultimately resulting in vision.
Phillip Bedggood, Andrew Metha
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Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 2014 In the last decade, building biohybrid materials has gained considerable interest in the field of nanotechnology. This paper describes an original design for bionanoarchitectures with interesting properties and potential bioapplications.
Marcela Elisabeta Barbinta-Patrascu +4 more
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Characterizing the Human Cone Photoreceptor Mosaic via Dynamic Photopigment Densitometry.
PLoS ONE, 2015 Densitometry is a powerful tool for the biophysical assessment of the retina. Until recently, this was restricted to bulk spatial scales in living humans.
Ramkumar Sabesan +2 more
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