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Function and Evolutionary Origin of Unicellular Camera-Type Eye Structure

by Hwang, Jung Shan , Suga, Hiroshi , Ikeo, Kazuho , Takaku, Yasuharu , Horiguchi, Takeo , Gehring, Walter , Hayakawa, Shiho , Gojobori, Takashi

in Animal Structures - physiology / Animal Structures - radiation effects / Animal Structures - ultrastructure / Animals / Bacteria / Biological Evolution / Biology / Cameras / Dinoflagellida - classification / Dinoflagellida - physiology / Dinoflagellida - radiation effects / Dinoflagellida - ultrastructure / Dinophyceae / Erythropsidinium / Evolution / Evolution (Biology) / Eye / Eye lens / Eyespot / Gene Expression / Genomes / Hypotheses / In Situ Hybridization / Lens, Crystalline - physiology / Lens, Crystalline - radiation effects / Lens, Crystalline - ultrastructure / Light / Microorganisms / Microscopy / Morphology / Nematodinium / Photic Stimulation / Photoreceptor Cells - physiology / Photoreceptor Cells - radiation effects / Photoreceptor Cells - ultrastructure / Photoreceptors / Phylogeny / Protozoan Proteins - genetics / Protozoan Proteins - metabolism / Pyrrophycophyta / Retina / Rhodopsin / Rhodopsin - genetics / Rhodopsin - metabolism / Rhodopsins, Microbial - genetics / Rhodopsins, Microbial - metabolism / Sequence Homology, Amino Acid / Studies / Symbiosis - physiology / Warnowiaceae

2015

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Function and Evolutionary Origin of Unicellular Camera-Type Eye Structure

by Hwang, Jung Shan , Suga, Hiroshi , Ikeo, Kazuho , Takaku, Yasuharu , Horiguchi, Takeo , Gehring, Walter , Hayakawa, Shiho , Gojobori, Takashi

2015

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Function and Evolutionary Origin of Unicellular Camera-Type Eye Structure

by Hwang, Jung Shan , Suga, Hiroshi , Ikeo, Kazuho , Takaku, Yasuharu , Horiguchi, Takeo , Gehring, Walter , Hayakawa, Shiho , Gojobori, Takashi

2015

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Function and Evolutionary Origin of Unicellular Camera-Type Eye Structure

Hwang, Jung Shan,

Suga, Hiroshi,

Ikeo, Kazuho,

Takaku, Yasuharu,

Horiguchi, Takeo,

Gehring, Walter,

Hayakawa, Shiho,

Gojobori, Takashi

2015

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The ocelloid is an extraordinary eyespot organelle found only in the dinoflagellate family Warnowiaceae. It contains retina- and lens-like structures called the retinal body and the hyalosome. The ocelloid has been an evolutionary enigma because of its remarkable resemblance to the multicellular camera-type eye. To determine if the ocelloid is functionally photoreceptive, we investigated the warnowiid dinoflagellate Erythropsidinium. Here, we show that the morphology of the retinal body changed depending on different illumination conditions and the hyalosome manifests the refractile nature. Identifying a rhodopsin gene fragment in Erythropsidinium ESTs that is expressed in the retinal body by in situ hybridization, we also show that ocelloids are actually light sensitive photoreceptors. The rhodopsin gene identified is most closely related to bacterial rhodopsins. Taken together, we suggest that the ocelloid is an intracellular camera-type eye, which might be originated from endosymbiotic origin.

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Animal Structures - physiology

/ Animal Structures - radiation effects

/ Animal Structures - ultrastructure

/ Animals

/ Bacteria

/ Biological Evolution

/ Biology