Pigmented and nonpigmented ocelli in the brain vesicle of the ascidian larva

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 509, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 88-102

  Horie, Takeo ^a   Sakurai, Daisuke ^a   Ohtsuki, Hisashi ^b   Terakita, Akihisa ^c,d   Shichida, Yoshinori ^c   Usukura, Jiro ^e   Kusakabe, Takehiro ^a   Tsuda, Motoyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Ocellus; Opsin; Photoreceptor cells; Swimming behavior

Indexed keywords

11 CIS RETINAL; OPSIN;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; HUMANS; LARVA; LASERS; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PIGMENTATION; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 45349087665     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21733     Document Type: Article

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