ArticleThe Journal of experimental biology2009
Spatial distribution of opsin-encoding mRNAs in the tiered larval retinas of the sunburst diving beetle Thermonectus marmoratus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae).
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- A Complex Lens for a Complex Eye.Integrative and comparative biology · 2017Article
- Overcoming the loss of blue sensitivity through opsin duplication in the largest animal group, beetles.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- A cure for the blues: opsin duplication and subfunctionalization for short-wavelength sensitivity in jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae).BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- Rapid and step-wise eye growth in molting diving beetle larvae.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015Article
- Opsin transcripts of predatory diving beetles: a comparison of surface and subterranean photic niches.Royal Society open science · 2015Article
- How aquatic water-beetle larvae with small chambered eyes overcome challenges of hunting under water.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2014Review
- Evolution and expression plasticity of opsin genes in a fig pollinator, Ceratosolen solmsi.PloS one · 2013Article
- Molecular evidence for color discrimination in the Atlantic sand fiddler crab, Uca pugilator.The Journal of experimental biology · 2010Article
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Abstract
Larvae of the sunburst diving beetle, Thermonectus marmoratus, have a cluster of six stemmata (E1-6) and one eye patch on each side of the head. Each eye has two retinas: a distal retina that is closer to the lens, and a proximal retina that lies directly underneath. The distal retinas of E1 and E2 are made of a dorsal and a ventral stack of at least twelve photoreceptor layers. Could this arrangement be used to compensate for lens chromatic aberration, with shorter wavelengths detected by the distal layers and longer wavelengths by the proximal layers? To answer this question we molecularly identified opsins and their expression patterns in these eyes. We found three opsin-encoding genes. The distal retinas of all six eyes express long-wavelength opsin (TmLW) mRNA, whereas the proximal retinas express ultraviolet opsin (TmUV I) mRNA. In the proximal retinas of E1 and E2, the TmUV I mRNA is expressed only in the dorsal stack. A second ultraviolet opsin mRNA (TmUV II), is expressed in the proximal retinas of E1 and E2 (both stacks). The finding that longer-wavelength opsins are expressed distally to shorter-wavelength opsins makes it unlikely that this retinal arrangement is used to compensate for lens chromatic aberration. In addition, we also described opsin expression patterns in the medial retina of E1 and in the non-tiered retina of the lensless eye patch. To our knowledge, this is also the first report of multiple UV opsins being expressed in the same stemma.
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