ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2011
The molecular basis of mechanisms underlying polarization vision.
Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.
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- The spectral, spatial and contrast sensitivity of human polarization pattern perception.Scientific reports · 2017Trial
- Neural responses to light stimulation in the octopus arm.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Polarized vision in the eyes of the most effective predators: dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata).Die Naturwissenschaften · 2025Review
- Polarization and reflectance are linked to climate, size and mechanistic constraints in a group of scarab beetles.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The sky compass network in the brain of the desert locust.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Review
- Insect opsins and evo-devo: what have we learned in 25 years?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Thresholds of polarization vision in octopuses.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Spatial orientation of social caterpillars is influenced by polarized light.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Exceptional diversity of opsin expression patterns inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Horsefly object-directed polarotaxis is mediated by a stochastically distributed ommatidial subtype in the ventral retina.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Analysis of the genetically tractable crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis reveals the organisation of a sensory system for low-resolution vision.BMC biology · 2019Article
- The Eye of the Common Octopus (Frontiers in physiology · 2019Review
- A different view: sensory drive in the polarized-light realm.Current zoology · 2018Article
- Insect Responses to Linearly Polarized Reflections: Orphan Behaviors Without Neural Circuits.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2018Review
- The Fly Sensitizing Pigment Enhances UV Spectral Sensitivity While Preventing Polarization-Induced Artifacts.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2018Article
- A vertebrate retina with segregated colour and polarization sensitivity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- A light-dependent magnetoreception mechanism insensitive to light intensity and polarization.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2017Article
- Selection of the intrinsic polarization properties of animal optical materials creates enhanced structural reflectivity and camouflage.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Can invertebrates see the e-vector of polarization as a separate modality of light?The Journal of experimental biology · 2016Review
- Anatomical Reconstruction and Functional Imaging Reveal an Ordered Array of Skylight Polarization Detectors in Drosophila.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
The underlying mechanisms of polarization sensitivity (PS) have long remained elusive. For rhabdomeric photoreceptors, questions remain over the high levels of PS measured experimentally. In ciliary photoreceptors, and specifically cones, little direct evidence supports any type of mechanism. In order to promote a greater interest in these fundamental aspects of polarization vision, we examined a varied collection of studies linking membrane biochemistry, protein-protein interactions, molecular ordering and membrane phase behaviour. While initially these studies may seem unrelated to polarization vision, a common narrative emerges. A surprising amount of evidence exists demonstrating the importance of protein-protein interactions in both rhabdomeric and ciliary photoreceptors, indicating the possible long-range ordering of the opsin protein for increased PS. Moreover, we extend this direction by considering how such protein paracrystalline organization arises in all cell types from controlled membrane phase behaviour and propose a universal pathway for PS to occur in both rhabdomeric and cone photoreceptors.
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