Molecular analysis of the amphioxus frontal eye unravels the evolutionary origin of the retina and pigment cells of the vertebrate eye

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 15383-15388

  Vopalensky, Pavel ^a,c   Pergner, Jiri ^a   Liegertova, Michaela ^a   Benito Gutierrez, Elia ^b   Arendt, Detlev ^b,c   Kozmik, Zbynek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c Animal Evolution Department   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cephalochordate; Evolution; Vision

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; MELANIN; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; OPSIN; SEROTONIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRANCHIOSTOMA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; GENE DUPLICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CHORDATA; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MELANINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSINS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PIGMENTATION; RETINA; SEROTONIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866566158     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207580109     Document Type: Article

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