ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2012
Light-mediated control of rhodopsin movement in mosquito photoreceptors.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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- Opsin1 regulates light-evoked avoidance behavior in Aedes albopictus.BMC biology · 2022Article
- The evolution of insect visual opsin genes with specific consideration of the influence of ocelli and life history traits.BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Elimination of vision-guided target attraction in Aedes aegypti using CRISPR.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- Ultraviolet inflorescence cues enhance attractiveness of inflorescence odour to Culex pipiens mosquitoes.PloS one · 2019Article
- Evolutionary transition from blood feeding to obligate nonbiting in a mosquito.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- 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
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- Expression and light-triggered movement of rhodopsins in the larval visual system of mosquitoes.The Journal of experimental biology · 2015Article
- A database of circadian and diel rhythmic gene expression in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti.BMC genomics · 2014Article
- Rhodopsin management during the light-dark cycle of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes.Journal of insect physiology · 2014Article
- Opsin expression in Limulus eyes: a UV opsin is expressed in each eye type and co-expressed with a visible light-sensitive opsin in ventral larval eyes.The Journal of experimental biology · 2014Article
- Rhodopsin coexpression in UV photoreceptors of Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes.The Journal of experimental biology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Multiple mechanisms contribute to a photoreceptor's ability to adapt to ambient light conditions. The mosquito Aedes aegypti expresses the long-wavelength rhodopsin Aaop1 in all R1-R6 photoreceptors and most R8 photoreceptors. These photoreceptors alter the cellular location of Aaop1 and reorganize their photosensitive rhabdomeric membranes on a daily basis. During daylight periods, Aaop1 is excluded from the light-sensitive rhabdomeres and localized to multivesicular bodies (MVBs) within the photoreceptor cytoplasm. In the dark, Aaop1 accumulates in the rhabdomeres and no Aaop1-containing MVBs are present in the cytoplasm. Manipulation of light treatments shows the cellular movement of Aaop1 in and out of the rhabdomere is directly controlled by light. In a separate process, the photoreceptors reduce Aaop1 protein content during a time period spanning from late afternoon into the first 2 h of the dark period. Aaop1 levels then gradually increase through the dark period and remain high following movement of Aaop1 to the cytoplasm at dawn. These results demonstrate that mosquito photoreceptors control rhodopsin availability during the daily light-dark cycle by novel mechanisms not discerned from analysis of traditional invertebrate models. These mechanisms will maximize a photoreceptor's light sensitivity range and therefore may be common in organisms active in low light conditions.
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