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From water to land: Evolution of photoreceptor circuits for vision in air.
Article in PLoS biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers.
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- A heterogeneous population code at the first synapse of vision.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Conservation of cis-regulatory codes over half a billion years of evolution.Science advances · 2025Article
- On analogies in vertebrate and insect visual systems.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Evolution of the Nonvisual and Visual Opsin Gene Repertoire in Ray-Finned Fishes.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Comparative transcriptomic insights into the evolution of vertebrate photoreceptor types.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- A standardized nomenclature for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Single cones give rise to multi-cone types in the retinas of fishes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Comparative transcriptomic insights into the evolutionary origin of the tetrapod double cone.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- The vertebrate retina: a window into the evolution of computation in the brain.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2024Review
- Correction: From water to land: Evolution of photoreceptor circuits for vision in air.PLoS biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
When vertebrates first conquered the land, they encountered a visual world that was radically distinct from that of their aquatic ancestors. Fish exploit the strong wavelength-dependent interactions of light with water by differentially feeding the signals from up to 5 spectral photoreceptor types into distinct behavioural programmes. However, above the water the same spectral rules do not apply, and this called for an update to visual circuit strategies. Early tetrapods soon evolved the double cone, a still poorly understood pair of new photoreceptors that brought the "ancestral terrestrial" complement from 5 to 7. Subsequent nonmammalian lineages differentially adapted this highly parallelised retinal input strategy for their diverse visual ecologies. By contrast, mammals shed most ancestral photoreceptors and converged on an input strategy that is exceptionally general. In eutherian mammals including in humans, parallelisation emerges gradually as the visual signal traverses the layers of the retina and into the brain.
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