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Photoreceptor evolution: Ancient siblings serve different tasks

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Summary, in English

Photoreceptor cells of vertebrate eyes are fundamentally different from those of invertebrate eyes. New work on the brain of a ragworm now suggests that ancestral bilaterians possessed both types of photoreceptor cell.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

94-96

Publication/Series

Current Biology

Volume

15

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article (letter)

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Zoology

Status

Published

Research group

  • Lund Vision Group

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1879-0445