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Extraocular, rod-like photoreceptors in a flatworm express xenopsin photopigment.
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- An Ocean of Opsins.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Light in the Darkness: Responses to Light and Diel Activity Rhythm in an Eyeless Cave Flatworm (Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Lineage-Specific Class-A GPCR Dynamics Reflect Diverse Chemosensory Adaptations in Lophotrochozoa.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Ultrastructural analysis and 3D reconstruction of the frontal sensory-glandular complex and its neural projections in the platyhelminth Macrostomum lignano.Cell and tissue research · 2024Article
- Opsin expression varies across larval development and taxa in pteriomorphian bivalves.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Functional characterization of four opsins and two G alpha subtypes co-expressed in the molluscan rhabdomeric photoreceptor.BMC biology · 2023Article
- Molluscan Genomes Reveal Extensive Differences in Photopigment Evolution Across the Phylum.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Convergent evolution of the sensory pits in and within flatworms.BMC biology · 2023Article
- Photobehaviours guided by simple photoreceptor systems.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Characterization of eyes, photoreceptors, and opsins in developmental stages of the arrow worm Spadella cephaloptera (Chaetognatha).Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2023Article
- Duplication and Losses of Opsin Genes in Lophotrochozoan Evolution.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Deep Diversity: Extensive Variation in the Components of Complex Visual Systems across Animals.Cells · 2022Review
- The diversity of invertebrate visual opsins spanning Protostomia, Deuterostomia, and Cnidaria.Developmental biology · 2022Review
- Genome Assembly of the Polyclad Flatworm Prostheceraeus crozieri.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Convergent evolutionary counterion displacement of bilaterian opsins in ciliary cells.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2022Article
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- Rhodopsins: An Excitingly Versatile Protein Species for Research, Development and Creative Engineering.Frontiers in chemistry · 2022Review
- Discovery of a body-wide photosensory array that matures in an adult-like animal and mediates eye-brain-independent movement and arousal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Slowly seeing the light: an integrative review on ecological light pollution as a potential threat for mollusks.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Review
- The visual pigment xenopsin is widespread in protostome eyes and impacts the view on eye evolution.eLife · 2020Article
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Abstract
Animals detect light using opsin photopigments. Xenopsin, a recently classified subtype of opsin, challenges our views on opsin and photoreceptor evolution. Originally thought to belong to the Gαi-coupled ciliary opsins, xenopsins are now understood to have diverged from ciliary opsins in pre-bilaterian times, but little is known about the cells that deploy these proteins, or if they form a photopigment and drive phototransduction. We characterized xenopsin in a flatworm,
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