Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 364, No 1531

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Theme Issue 'The evolution of phototransduction and eyes' compiled and edited by Trevor D. Lamb, Detlev Arendt and Shaun P. Collin

Introduction

Introduction

The evolution of phototransduction and eyes

Trevor D. Lamb,
Detlev Arendt and
Shaun P. Collin

Published:12 October 2009Page(s): 2791-2793

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0106

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Evolution of phototaxis

Gáspár Jékely

Published:12 October 2009Page(s): 2795-2808

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0072

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Phototaxis in the broadest sense means positive or negative displacement along a light gradient or vector. Prokaryotes most often use a biased random walk strategy, employing type I sensory rhodopsin photoreceptors and two-component signalling to regulate ...

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The ‘division of labour’ model of eye evolution

Detlev Arendt,
Harald Hausen and
Günter Purschke

Published:12 October 2009Page(s): 2809-2817

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0104

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The ‘division of labour’ model of eye evolution is elaborated here. We propose that the evolution of complex, multicellular animal eyes started from a single, multi-functional cell type that existed in metazoan ancestors. This ancient cell type had at ...

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Eye evolution: common use and independent recruitment of genetic components

Pavel Vopalensky and
Zbynek Kozmik

Published:12 October 2009Page(s): 2819-2832

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0079

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Animal eyes can vary in complexity ranging from a single photoreceptor cell shaded by a pigment cell to elaborate arrays of these basic units, which allow image formation in compound eyes of insects or camera-type eyes of vertebrates. The evolution of the ...

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The evolution of eyes and visually guided behaviour

Dan-Eric Nilsson

Published:12 October 2009Page(s): 2833-2847

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0083

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The morphology and molecular mechanisms of animal photoreceptor cells and eyes reveal a complex pattern of duplications and co-option of genetic modules, leading to a number of different light-sensitive systems that share many components, in which clear-...

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The evolution of irradiance detection: melanopsin and the non-visual opsins

Stuart N. Peirson,
Stephanie Halford and
Russell G. Foster

Published:12 October 2009Page(s): 2849-2865

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0050

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Circadian rhythms are endogenous 24 h cycles that persist in the absence of external time cues. These rhythms provide an internal representation of day length and optimize physiology and behaviour to the varying demands of the solar cycle. These clocks ...

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Evolution of vertebrate rod and cone phototransduction genes

Dan Larhammar,
Karin Nordström and
Tomas A. Larsson

Published:12 October 2009Page(s): 2867-2880

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0077

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Vertebrate cones and rods in several cases use separate but related components for their signal transduction (opsins, G-proteins, ion channels, etc.). Some of these proteins are also used differentially in other cell types in the retina. Because cones, ...

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Evolution of opsins and phototransduction

Yoshinori Shichida and
Take Matsuyama

Published:12 October 2009Page(s): 2881-2895

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0051

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Opsins are the universal photoreceptor molecules of all visual systems in the animal kingdom. They can change their conformation from a resting state to a signalling state upon light absorption, which activates the G protein, thereby resulting in a ...

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Evolution and the origin of the visual retinoid cycle in vertebrates

Takehiro G. Kusakabe,
Noriko Takimoto,
Minghao Jin and
Motoyuki Tsuda

Published:12 October 2009Page(s): 2897-2910

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0043

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Absorption of a photon by visual pigments induces isomerization of 11-cis-retinaldehyde (RAL) chromophore to all-trans-RAL. Since the opsins lacking 11-cis-RAL lose light sensitivity, sustained vision requires continuous regeneration of 11-cis-RAL via the ...

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Evolution of vertebrate retinal photoreception

Trevor D. Lamb

Published:12 October 2009Page(s): 2911-2924

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0102

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Recent findings shed light on the steps underlying the evolution of vertebrate photoreceptors and retina. Vertebrate ciliary photoreceptors are not as wholly distinct from invertebrate rhabdomeric photoreceptors as is sometimes thought. Recent information ...

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The evolution of early vertebrate photoreceptors

Shaun P. Collin,
Wayne L. Davies,
Nathan S. Hart and
David M. Hunt

Published:12 October 2009Page(s): 2925-2940

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0099

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Meeting the challenge of sampling an ancient aquatic landscape by the early vertebrates was crucial to their survival and would establish a retinal bauplan to be used by all subsequent vertebrate descendents. Image-forming eyes were under tremendous ...

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Evolution and spectral tuning of visual pigments in birds and mammals

David M. Hunt,
Livia S. Carvalho,
Jill A. Cowing and
Wayne L. Davies

Published:12 October 2009Page(s): 2941-2955

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0044

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Variation in the types and spectral characteristics of visual pigments is a common mechanism for the adaptation of the vertebrate visual system to prevailing light conditions. The extent of this diversity in mammals and birds is discussed in detail in ...

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Evolution of colour vision in mammals

Gerald H. Jacobs

Published:12 October 2009Page(s): 2957-2967

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0039

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Colour vision allows animals to reliably distinguish differences in the distributions of spectral energies reaching the eye. Although not universal, a capacity for colour vision is sufficiently widespread across the animal kingdom to provide prima facie ...

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences cover image

12 October 2009

Volume 364Issue 1531

Editor-In-Chief

Professor Richard Dixon FRS

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Cover image: A reef squid, Sepioteuthis lessonia, at night. The squid’s camera-style eye bears a striking resemblance to the vertebrate eye, though the two organs have very different evolutionary origins while sharing certain deep homologies, for example in their mechanisms of phototransduction. (Photograph by James Watt, licensed from Photolibrary.)
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