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Eye evolution: two eyes can be better than one.

Kenneth W Foster1.   

Abstract

The development of our eyes is owed in part to ancestral structures which functioned in phototaxis. With the origin of bilateral annelid larva, two eyes co-evolved with neurons to improve phototaxis performance.

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Year:  2009        PMID： 19278637     DOI： 10.1016/j.cub.2009.01.019

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Curr Biol        ISSN： 0960-9822            Impact factor:   10.834


  4 in total

1.  Antisense-induced myostatin exon skipping leads to muscle hypertrophy in mice following octa-guanidine morpholino oligomer treatment.

Authors:  Jagjeet K Kang; Alberto Malerba; Linda Popplewell; Keith Foster; George Dickson
Journal:  Mol Ther       Date:  2010-10-05       Impact factor: 11.454

Review 2.  The 'division of labour' model of eye evolution.

Authors:  Detlev Arendt; Harald Hausen; Günter Purschke
Journal:  Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci       Date:  2009-10-12       Impact factor: 6.237

3.  Evidence from Chlamydomonas on the photoactivation of rhodopsins without isomerization of their chromophore.

Authors:  Kenneth W Foster; Jureepan Saranak; Sonja Krane; Randy L Johnson; Koji Nakanishi
Journal:  Chem Biol       Date:  2011-06-24

Review 4.  Evolution of phototaxis.

Authors:  Gáspár Jékely
Journal:  Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci       Date:  2009-10-12       Impact factor: 6.237
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