Eye evolution and the origin of Darwin's eye prototype

Italian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 124-136

  Gehring, Walter ^a   Seimiya, Makiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evolution; Eye; MITF; Pax6; Prototypic eye

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EYE; PHOTORECEPTION; VISION;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; BILATERIA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; PLATYNEREIS; SCYPHOZOA; TRIPEDALIA; TURBELLARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953318284     PISSN: 11250003     EISSN: 17485851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11250001003795350     Document Type: Review

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