ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2003
Mechanisms controlling the sensitivity of the Limulus lateral eye in natural lighting.
Article in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Light-Driven Processes Control Both Rhodopsin Maturation and Recycling in Mosquito Photoreceptors.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016Article
- What the clock tells the eye: lessons from an ancient arthropod.Integrative and comparative biology · 2013Review
- Opsin1-2, G(q)α and arrestin levels at Limulus rhabdoms are controlled by diurnal light and a circadian clock.The Journal of experimental biology · 2013Article
- Light-mediated control of rhodopsin movement in mosquito photoreceptors.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2012Article
- Opsin co-expression in Limulus photoreceptors: differential regulation by light and a circadian clock.The Journal of experimental biology · 2010Article
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Abstract
Electroretinograms were recorded from the horseshoe crab compound eye using a high-intensity light-emitting diode and a whole-eye seawater electrode. Recordings were made from both lateral eyes in natural daylight or in continuous darkness with the optic nerve intact or cut. Recordings from two eyes of the same animal in different conditions facilitated direct comparisons of the effects of diurnal lighting and circadian efferent activity on the daily patterns of sensitivity of the eye. Structural changes appear to account for about half of the total electroretinogram excursion. Circadian input begins about 45 min in advance of sunset and the nighttime sensitivity returns to the daytime values 20 min after sunrise. When the optic nerve is cut, the nighttime sensitivity shows exponential decay over the next 5 or 6 days, consistent with a light-triggered structural light adaptation process unopposed by efferent input. Our results suggest that two mechanisms mediate the increase in lateral eye sensitivity at night-physiological dark adaptation and circadian efferent input. Three mechanisms appear to be involved in mediating the decrease in lateral eye sensitivity during daylight-physiological light adaptation, a continuous structural light adaptation process, and a separate light-triggered, efferent-primed structural light adaptation process.
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