ReviewNature ecology & evolution2024
Ancestral photoreceptor diversity as the basis of visual behaviour.
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- Collective intermittent exploration in fish schools is mediated by visual cues.Royal Society open science · 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
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- Species-specific circuitry of double cone photoreceptors in two avian retinas.Communications biology · 2024Article
- The vertebrate retina: a window into the evolution of computation in the brain.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2024Review
- From water to land: Evolution of photoreceptor circuits for vision in air.PLoS biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Animal colour vision is based on comparing signals from different photoreceptors. It is generally assumed that processing different spectral types of photoreceptor mainly serves colour vision. Here I propose instead that photoreceptors are parallel feature channels that differentially support visual-motor programmes like motion vision behaviours, prey capture and predator evasion. Colour vision may have emerged as a secondary benefit of these circuits, which originally helped aquatic vertebrates to visually navigate and segment their underwater world. Specifically, I suggest that ancestral vertebrate vision was built around three main systems, including a high-resolution general purpose greyscale system based on ancestral red cones and rods to mediate visual body stabilization and navigation, a high-sensitivity specialized foreground system based on ancestral ultraviolet cones to mediate threat detection and prey capture, and a net-suppressive system based on ancestral green and blue cones for regulating red/rod and ultraviolet circuits. This ancestral strategy probably still underpins vision today, and different vertebrate lineages have since adapted their original photoreceptor circuits to suit their diverse visual ecologies.
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